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Tancred

Tancred

Tancred; or, The New Crusade is a novel by Benjamin Disraeli, first published by Henry Colburn in three volumes. Together with Coningsby and Sybil it forms a sequence sometimes called the Young England trilogy. It shares a number of characters with the earlier novels, but unlike them is concerned less with the political and social condition of England than with a religious and even mystical theme: the question of how Judaism and Christianity are to be reconciled, and the Church reborn as a progressive force.


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“We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.”

Tancred, Chapter 46.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)

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“Everything comes if a man will only wait.”

Bk. IV, Ch. 8.
Source: Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)

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