"[T]he variety and versatility of Jeffrey's mind seems to me more extraordinary than ever... I do not think that any one man except Jeffrey, nay that any three men, could have produced such diversified excellence. When I compare him with Sydney and myself, I feel, with humility perfectly sincere, that his range is immeasurably wider than ours. And this is only as a writer; but he is not only a writer; he has been a great advocate, and he is a great Judge. Take him all in all, I think him more nearly an universal genius than any man of our time."
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Thomas Babington Macaulay to Mr. Napier (13 December 1843), quoted in George Otto Trevelyan, The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Vol. II (1876), pp. 149-150
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Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
Francis Jeffrey (October 23 1773 – June 26 1850) was a Scottish critic, political writer, judge and lawyer. He was for some twenty-six years editor of the Edinburgh Review. He is sometimes referred to as Lord Jeffrey or as Francis, Lord Jeffrey, having been made a Lord of Session in 1834.
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