Bagehot

[ baj-uht ]

/ ˈbædʒ ət /

noun

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

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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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I quite subscribe to what you say about Mr. Bagehot's striking remark, and wish I had not quoted it.
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Bagehot's was the conservatism of middle-class English thought and experience.
The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886|Various
The "oratory of conviction," to borrow a phrase of Mr. Bagehot's, is so rare as to be hardly worth taking into account.
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In effect, the cabinet comprises a parliamentary committee chosen, as Bagehot bluntly puts it, to rule the nation.
The Governments of Europe|Frederic Austin Ogg
The newspaper man needs to see these things and be taught them as Bagehot wrote on them and Walker and Sumner taught them.
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Bagehot

/ (ˈbædʒət) /

noun

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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