THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE

EARL OF BEACONSFIELD, K.G.,

ETC., ETC.

BY

FRANCIS HITCHMAN.

SECOND AND REVISED EDITION.

"But as for Lycurgus, they thought of him thus: that he was a man borne to
rule, to commaunde and to geue order, as hauing in him a certaine naturall grace
and power to drawe men willingly to obeye him."

PLUTARCH (North's Translation, 1579.)

"Who breaks his birth's invidious bar
And grasps the skirts of happier chance,
Who breasts the blows of circumstance,

And grapples with his evil star;
Who makes by force his merit known,
Who lives to clutch the golden keys,
To mould a mighty State's decrees
And shape the whisper of a throne;
And, moving up from high to higher,
Becomes on fortune's crowning slope
The pillar of a people's hope,
The centre of a world's desires"

TENNYSON, Memoriam, lzii.

LONDON:

SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON,

CROWN BUILDINGS, 188 FLEET STREET.

1881.

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