 | James Boswell - 1887 - 512 pages
...mechanical. It is wonderful how little mind she had. Sir, 1 'Of Gibbon, Mackintosh neatly remarked that he might have been cut out of a corner of Burke's mind, without his missing it." Life of Mackintosh, i. 92. It is worthy of notice that Gibbon scarcely mentions Johnson... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill, James Saumarez Mann - 1899 - 650 pages
...manner makes it brilliantly effective. It was said, records Croker, by Sir James Mackintosh, that Gibbon might have been cut out of a corner of Burke's mind without Burke noticing it. To determine Mackintosh's own proportional relation to Burke by the same scale would... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pages
...respect to every fact relative to the French Revolution. . . . Of Gibbon, Mackintosh neatly remarked ich Marco Polo had before encountered; whose faithful narrative had his missing it. — GREEN, THOMAS, 1797-1810, Diary of a Lover of Literature. NEAR THIS PLACE LIES... | |
 | Arthur Donald Innes - 1914 - 628 pages
...an apologist for the French Revolution, ventured to measure swords with Edmund Burke, that ' Gibbon might have been cut out of a corner of Burke's mind without Burke noticing it. ' If Mackintosh meant to belittle Gibbon the criticism was absurd. If he meant merely... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1919 - 266 pages
...with Burke, as purely practical, and incapable of strict definition. Of Gibbon, M. neatly remarked, that he might have been cut out of a corner of Burke's mind, without his missing it. It would be interesting to know who M. was. Quite possibly Matthew Montagu, Elizabeth... | |
 | Francis Meehan - 1928 - 764 pages
...sir; but Cicero reminds me of Burke." Sir JamesMackintosh remarked that the historian Edward Gibbon might have been cut out of a corner of Burke's mind without being missed. The French orator Mirabeau paid Burke the practical compliment of borrowing freely from the Irishman's... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 pages
...Beaconsfield Mackintosh was so impressed with Burke's powers of conversation that he remarked "Gibbon might have been cut out of a corner of Burke's mind without anyone noticing the excision." Gibbon himself, who disliked Burke's Christian orthodoxy, called him... | |
 | Mark Salber Phillips - 2000 - 390 pages
...narrative prevails over every defect" (2:ll0). But Gibbon, the third of the triumvirate, was no favorite. "He might have been cut out of a corner of Burke's mind without his missing it," Mackintosh is reported to have said. 18 He found Gibbon cold and stately, penetrating... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 718 pages
...Beaconsfield Mackintosh was so impressed with Burke's powers of conversation that he remarked "Gibbon might have been cut out of a corner of Burke's mind without anyone noticing the excision." Gibbon himself, who disliked Burke's Christian orthodoxy, called him... | |
 | Edward Andrew - 2006 - 297 pages
...WW Norton 2000), 9-15. We might not have to go as far as Sir James MacIntosh, who says that Gibbon 'might have been cut out of a corner of Burke's mind without his missing it,' to contest the stature of English giants. 29 John Robertson, 'The Scottish Contribution... | |
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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. 
