Walter Bagehot: “They dare not frame a society of enjoyment as the French aristocracy…”

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They dare not frame a society of enjoyment as the French aristocracy once formed it.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot asserts that the aristocracy is unable to create a society of enjoyment like their French counterparts did.

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Walter Bagehot: “They dare not frame a society of enjoyment as the French aristocracy once formed it.”