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Bagehot
[ baj-uht ]
noun
- Walter, 1826–77, English economist, political journalist, and critic.
Bagehot
/ ˈbædʒət /
noun
- 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.
In the main Punch's temper may be expressed, to borrow from Bagehot, as an "animated moderation."
Mr. Walter Bagehot preferred Hazlitt to Lamb, reckoning the former much the greater writer.
And if Burke has been his study, Bagehot has been his schoolmaster.
I quite subscribe to what you say about Mr. Bagehot's striking remark, and wish I had not quoted it.
They gave elegant expression to what the late Mr. Bagehot called the "literary theory" of the English Constitution.
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