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On the play of the Heart and of the Arteries in the phenomena of 

 circulation. 

 Theory of Tides. 

 On the Diseases of the Chest, 

 On the Friction of the Axes of Machines. 

 On the Yellow Fever. 

 On the Calculation of Eclipses. 

 Essays on Grammar, &c.* 



CHARACTER OF YOUNG. HIS POSITION AS A PHYSI- 

 CIAN. HIS ENGAGEMENT ON THE NAUTICAL ALMA- 

 NAC. HIS DEATH. 



Labours so numerous and varied seem as if they 

 must have required the laborious and retired life of that 

 class of men of science, which, to say the truth, is begin- 

 ning to disappear, who from their earliest youth separate 

 themselves from their companions to shut themselves up 

 completely in their studies. Thomas Young was, on the 

 contrary, what is usually called a man of the world. 

 He constantly frequented the best society in London. 

 The graces of his wit, the elegance of his manners, were 

 amply sufficient to make him remarkable. But when 

 we figure to ourselves those numerous assemblies in 

 which fifty different subjects in turn are skimmed over 

 in a few minutes, we may conceive what value would be 

 attached to one who was a true living library, from whom 

 every one could find, at the moment, an exact, precise, 

 substantial answer on all kinds of questions which they 

 could propose to him. Young was much occupied with 

 the fine arts. Many of his memoirs testify the profound 



* This list, it should be borne in mind, is intended by the author 

 merely as a specimen of the vast catalogue which might be made of 

 Young's writings; the reader will find ample details as to his innu- 

 merable productions in Peacock's Life. Translator. 



