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" Life of him: Burke, he said, agreed with him: and affirmed, that this work was a greater monument to Johnson's fame; than all his writings put together. "
Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged - Page 153
1810
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Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of Literature

Thomas Green - Literature - 1810 - 262 pages
...which he considered witlvBurke, as purely practical, and incapable of strict definition. Of Gibboh, M. neatly remarked, that he might have been cut out...without his missing it.-;— Spok'e highly of Johnson's prompt and vigorous powfers in conversation, and, on this ground, of Boswell's Life of him: Burke,...
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Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of Literature

Thomas Green - Literature - 1810 - 262 pages
...Nations, except the account of Liberty — a subject which he considered with Burke, as purely practical, and incapable of strict definition. Of Gibbon, M....remarked, that he might have been cut out of a corner oi Burke's mind, wiHjout his missing it. — Spoke highly of Johnson's prompt and vigorous powers in...
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I. The Claims of Sir Philip Francis, K. B., to the Authorship of Junius's ...

Edmund Henry Barker - Authorship - 1828 - 588 pages
...Nations, except the account of Liberty — a subject which he considered with Burke, as purely practical, and incapable of strict definition. Of Gibbon, M....without his missing it. — Spoke highly of Johnson's prompt and vigorous powers in Conversation, and, on this ground, of Boswell's Life of him: Burke, he...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 3

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 586 pages
...friend Sir James Mackintosh), talking to him of the relative ability of Burke and Gibbon, said, " Gibbon might have been cut out of a corner of Burke's mind without his missing it." I fancy, now that enthusiasm has cooled, Sir James would be inclined to allow Gibbon a larger share...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 46

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 650 pages
...friend Sir James Mackintosh) talking to him of the relative ability of Burke and Gibbon, said, " Gibbon might have been cut out of a corner of Burke's mind without his missing it.' I fancy, now that enthusiasm has cooled, Sir James would be inclined to allow Gibbon a larger share...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 46

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 654 pages
...friend Sir James Mackintosh) talking to him of the relative ability of Burke and Gibbon, said, " Gibbon might have been cut out of a corner of Burke's mind without his missing it.' I fancy, now that enthusiasm has cooled, Sir James would be inclined to allow Gibbon a larger share...
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Memoirs of the life of ... sir James Mackintosh [extr. from ..., Volume 1

sir James Mackintosh - 1835 - 552 pages
...which he considered as purely practical, and incapable of strict definition. " Of Gibbon, Mackintosh neatly remarked, that he might have been cut out of...without his missing it. — Spoke highly of Johnson's prompt and vigorous powers in conversation ; and, on this ground, of Boswell's ' Life' of him. Burke,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 5

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 374 pages
...friend Sir James Mackintosh), talking to him of the relative ability of Burke and Gibbon, said, " Gibbon might have been cut out of a corner of Burke's mind without his missing it." I fancy, now that enthusiasm has cooled, Sir James would be inclined to allow Gibbon a larger share...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to ..., Volume 5

James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...friend Sir James Mackintosh), talking to him of the relative ability of Burke and Gibbon, said, " Gibbon might have been cut out of a corner of Burke's mind without his missing it." I fancy, no* that enthusiasm has cooled, Sir James would be inclined to allow Gibbon a larger share...
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The Dublin University Magazine, Volume 6

Ireland - 1835 - 726 pages
...and I have lost her when her excellent natural sense was rapidly improving, after eight years anil vigorous powers in conversation ; and, on this ground, of Boswell's ' Life' of him. Burke, lie said, agreed with him, and affirmed that this work was a greater monument to Johnson's fame than...
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