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Archibald Alison ( 13 November 1757 , Edinburgh – 17 May , 1839 ) was a Scottish Didactic and philosophical writer. He was born to Patrick Alison , Provost of Edinburgh . After studying at the University Of Glasgow and at Balliol College, Oxford , he took orders in the Church Of England , and was appointed in 1778 to the Curacy of Brancepeth , near Durham . In 1784 he married Dorothea, youngest daughter of Professor Gregory of Edinburgh. The next twenty years of his life were spent in Shropshire , where he held in succession the livings of High Ercall , Roddington and Kenley . In 1800 he moved back to Edinburgh, having been appointed senior incumbent of St Paul's Chapel in the Cowgate . For thirty-four years he filled this position with much ability; his sermons were characterised by quiet beauty of thought and grace of composition. His preaching attracted so many hearers that a new and larger church was built for him. His last years were spent at Colinton near Edinburgh. Alison published, besides a ''Life of Lord Woodhouseke'', a volume of sermons, which passed through several editions, and a work entitled ''Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste'' (1790), based on the principle of "association". His elder son, Dr William Pulteney Alison ( 1790 – 1859 ), was a distinguished Edinburgh medical professor. REFERENCES |
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