| 单词 | the fourth estate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe fourth estate b. the fourth estate: (a) formerly in various jocular applications (see quots.); (b) now appropriated to the Press.We have failed to discover confirmation of Carlyle's statement (quot. 1841) attributing to Burke the use of this phrase in the application now current. A correspondent of Notes & Queries (1st Ser. 11 452) states that he heard Brougham use it in the House of Commons in 1823 or 1824, and that it was at that time treated as original. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > collectively press gang1832 the fourth estate1837 gazetteerage1865 press1868 meeja1983 1752 H. Fielding Covent-Garden Jrnl. 5 Oct. 1/1 None of our political Writers..take Notice of any more than three Estates, namely, King, Lords, and Commons..passing by in Silence that very large and powerful Body which form the fourth Estate in this Community..The Mob. 1752 H. Fielding Covent-Garden Jrnl. 5 Oct. 2/1 Nor hath this Estate..been unknown to the other three. 1821 W. Hazlitt Table-talk vi. 115 He [Cobbett] is a kind of fourth estate in the politics of this country. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vi. v. 327 A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes v. 265 Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery..there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. 1854 C. Knight Once upon a Time II. 20 Hackney-chairman..belonged to what Fielding termed ‘The Fourth Estate’. That dignity is now assigned to the Press. 1870 H. L. Bulwer Life Palmerston II. ix. 119 (note) At that period the ‘Times’ constituted a fourth estate of the realm. 1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 647/1 A power which calls itself the Fourth Estate of the realm. < as lemmas |
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