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Show H i DISRAELI AS A PLAGIARIST. . 1 Statesman Appropriated Brilliant B' Words of Other Men. M ' A recontly published volumo on DIs- m raeli singles out as one of the most H brilliant of Dlsraoll'a sayings a sen H tonco which that statesman appro- H prlatod without acknowledgment from B Bacon's "Essay of Great Placo": "Ask H counnol of both times of the ancient B timea that which Is best, of tho mod- B ' era times that which is fittest." Tho HB most frequently quoted of all DIs- H. raoll's sayings was similarly appro- H pritcd by him without acknowledge H ment from Lord Shaftesbury: "Men of M sonso aro all of the same religion." fl "And what is that religion, my lord 7" B "Thnt mon of senso novor tell." DIs- H raoll, howevor, novcr hlmsolf appro- M printed n joke of Gladstone's which H the writer of tho new volumo at- H tributes to his hero: "A deputation la H v, a noun of multitude, signifying many, H but not much." |