tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899748.post-40164083239521569732006-12-27T16:05:00.000+01:002006-12-27T16:08:54.425+01:00DANDY*O*RAMA - Sir Ferdinand Armine, the elder (Disraeli)At length arose, in the person of the last Sir Ferdinand Armine, one of those extraordinary and rarely gifted beings who require only an opportunity to influence the fortunes of their nation, and to figure as a Cæsar or an Alcibiades. Beautiful, brilliant, and ambitious, the young and restless Armine quitted, in his eighteenth year, the house of his fathers, and his stepdame of a country, and refusehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12435133525943977055noreply@blogger.com