Bagehot

[ baj-uht ]

noun

1. Walter, 1826–77, English economist, political journalist, and critic.

Bagehot

/ ˈbædʒət /

noun

1. BagehotWalter18261877MEnglishSOCIAL SCIENCE: economistWRITING: journalistWRITING: author Walter . 1826–77, English economist and journalist: editor of The Economist ; author of The English Constitution (1867) Physics and Politics (1872), and Lombard Street (1873)

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Bagehot was writing about the marriage of the future King Edward VII to Princess Alexandra of Denmark.

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In the main Punch's temper may be expressed, to borrow from Bagehot, as an "animated moderation."

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Mr. Walter Bagehot preferred Hazlitt to Lamb, reckoning the former much the greater writer.

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And if Burke has been his study, Bagehot has been his schoolmaster.

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I quite subscribe to what you say about Mr. Bagehot's striking remark, and wish I had not quoted it.

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They gave elegant expression to what the late Mr. Bagehot called the "literary theory" of the English Constitution.

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