ABSTRACT
Edinburgh Review, October, 1835, lxii, 242–8. The unsigned review of Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh (1835) from which this excerpt is taken was later included in Jeffrey’s Contributions to the Edinburgh Review (1844). For Jeffrey’s previous clashes with Coleridge, see Volume I. Mackintosh (1765–1832), an influential philosophical and political writer, was one of the most brilliant talkers of the age; he and Coleridge had met one another in 1797.
