| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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