/ · 1894 Brewer’s · F · Fourth Estate of the Realm (The)
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The daily press. The most powerful of all. Burke, referring to the Reportersʹ Gallery, said, “Yonder sits the Fourth Estate, more important than them all.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.