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COMPLAINT:

PRINTED BY PARKER AND BLISS,

AND SOLD BY THEM AT THE TROY BOOKSTORE,

SIGN OF THE BIBLE,

MEMOIRS

OF THE LATE

DR. EDWARD YOUNG,

COLLECTED FROM VARIOUS AUTHORS AS WELL

AS PRIVATE FRIENDS.

EDWARD YOUNG, L. L. D. author of the

Night Thoughts, and many other excellent pieces, was the only fon of Dr. Edward Young, an eminent, learned, and judicious divine, Dean of Sarum, Fellow of Winchefter College, and Rector of Upham, in Hampshire. He was born in the year 1684, at Upham; and, after being educated in Winchester College, was chofen on the foundation of New College at Oxford, October 13, 1703, when he was nineteen years of age; but being fuperannuated, and there being no vacancy of a fellowship, he removed before the expiration of the year to Corpus Chrifti, where he entered himself a Gentleman Com

moner.

In 1708, he was put into a law fellowship, at All Souls, by Archbishop Tennifon. Here he took the degree of B. C. L. in 1714, and in 1719, D. C. L. In this year he publifhed his Tragedy of Bufiris; in 1721, the Revenge; and in 1723, the Brothers: about this time he published his elegant poem on the Laft Day, which being wrote by a Layman, gave the more fatisfaction. He foon after published the Force of Religion, or Van