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Definition of Benjamin Disraeli

1. Noun. British statesman who as Prime Minister bought controlling interest in the Suez Canal and made Queen Victoria the empress of India (1804-1881).

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Literary usage of Benjamin Disraeli

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1907)
"Benjamin Disraeli: an unconventional Biography. By Wilfrid Meynell. London : Hutchinson, 1903. 3. Disraeli: a study in Personality and Ideas. ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1868)
"THE BIGHT HONOURABLE Benjamin Disraeli.—NO. IIL SUCH was the condition of public affairs in England—the responsibilities of office resting with the Whigs, ..."

3. Wit, Wisdom and Foibles of the Great: Together with Numerous Anecdotes by Charles Anthony Shriner (1918)
"BEACONSFIELD, Benjamin Disraeli, EABL OP,- British Prim» Minister SOURCES ... MONYPENNY, WILLIAM F., "Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. ..."

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