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MORISON, JAMES AUGUSTUS COTTER (1832-1888) , British author, was born in London on the 20th of April 1832. His father, who had made a large fortune as the inventor and proprietor of " Morison 's Pills," settled in Paris till his death in 184o, and Cotter Morison thus acquired not only an acquaintance with the French language, but a profound sympathy with France and French institutions. In later life he resided for some years in Paris, where his house
opinion . He was educated at Highgate grammar school and Lincoln College, Oxford. Here he fell under the influence of Mark Pattison, to whom his impressionable nature perhaps owed a certain over-fastidiousness that characterized his whole career. He also made the acquaintance of the leading English Positivists, to whose opinions he became an ardent convert. Yet he retained a strong sympathy with the Roman Catholic religion, and at one time spent several weeks in a Catholic monastery. One other great
Bernard
work
Gazette
series , marked by sound judgment and wide reading. This he followed up in 1882 with his Macaulay in the same series . It exhibits, more clearly perhapsthan any other of Morison's works, both his merits and his defects. Macaulay's bluff and strenuous character, his rhetorical style, his unphilosophical conception of history, were entirely out of harmony with Morison's prepossessions. Yet in his anxiety to do justice to his subject he steeped himself in Macau-lay till his style often recalls that which he is censuring. His brief sketch, Mme de Maintenon: une etude (1885), and some magazine articles, were the only fruits of his labours in French history. Towards the close of his life he meditated a work
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