Difference between revisions of "Archibald Alison"
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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_18896" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_18896" /> == | ||
<p> an English divine, was born in 1757, and matriculated at Baliol College, Oxford, in 1775, where he proceeded to the degree of B.C.L., March 23, 1784. At the time of his decease he was senior minister of the Episcopal Chapel, Cowgate, Edinburgh. In 1790 Mr. Alison published Essays on the Nature and [[Principles]] of Taste, which work has attained a wide celebrity. He gave to the world a number of Sermons (1809-15), also a Memoir of the Life and Writings of | <p> an English divine, was born in 1757, and matriculated at Baliol College, Oxford, in 1775, where he proceeded to the degree of B.C.L., March 23, 1784. At the time of his decease he was senior minister of the Episcopal Chapel, Cowgate, Edinburgh. In 1790 Mr. Alison published Essays on the Nature and [[Principles]] of Taste, which work has attained a wide celebrity. He gave to the world a number of Sermons (1809-15), also a Memoir of the Life and Writings of Lady Woodhouslee (Trans. Edinb. R. Soc. 1818, 7, 515). See [[Christian]] Remembrancer, July, 1839, p. 440; Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors. s.v. </p> | ||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_67224" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_67224" /> == | ||
<p> An Episcopal clergyman in Edinburgh, of which he was a native, best known for his "Essay on the Nature and | <p> An Episcopal clergyman in Edinburgh, of which he was a native, best known for his "Essay on the Nature and Principles of Taste" (1757-1839). </p> | ||
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Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [1]
an English divine, was born in 1757, and matriculated at Baliol College, Oxford, in 1775, where he proceeded to the degree of B.C.L., March 23, 1784. At the time of his decease he was senior minister of the Episcopal Chapel, Cowgate, Edinburgh. In 1790 Mr. Alison published Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste, which work has attained a wide celebrity. He gave to the world a number of Sermons (1809-15), also a Memoir of the Life and Writings of Lady Woodhouslee (Trans. Edinb. R. Soc. 1818, 7, 515). See Christian Remembrancer, July, 1839, p. 440; Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors. s.v.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
An Episcopal clergyman in Edinburgh, of which he was a native, best known for his "Essay on the Nature and Principles of Taste" (1757-1839).
