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The symptoms, physical and moral, are most distressing: lassitude and despondency....I should think that this illness of his youth, and which, though of a fitful character, was of many years' duration, arose from his inability to direct to a satisfactory end the intellectual power which he was conscious of possessing.

The symptoms, physical and moral, are most distressing: lassitude and despondency....I should think that this illness of his youth, and which, though of a fitful character, was of many years' duration, arose from his inability to direct to a satisfactory end the intellectual power which he was conscious of possessing.

....suffering from one of those indefinable 19th century illnesses that now look obviously psychosomatic..."chronic inflammation of the membranes of the brain" but today he would probably be diagnosed with acute depression.....Meanwhile patience and resignation must be hist lot - two drugs in human life, bitter of digestion, in an ardent and excitable mind.

Description of Disraeli: He was very showily attired in a dark bottle-green frock-coat, a waistcoat of the most extravagant pattern, the front of which was covered with glittering chains, and in fancy-pattern pantaloons....Altogether he was the most intellectual-looking exquisite I had ever seen.