Note 117 — Chapter VI · COLONIES—EMPIRE—FOREIGN POLICY
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“Light and leading,” which Disraeli employed long before the famous letter to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, in a speech of 1858, comes of course from Burke. His theory of the House of Lords in 1861 as “an intermediate body” is derived from Bolingbroke and Burke. “Peace with honour” he employed in one of his Crimean speeches. Many of his phrases were derived from the works of his father.