...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...
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. 
