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efFeil among the perfonages of modern tragedies. His 

 " Night Thoughts" are deemed original in defign and 

 execution. Whatever were the caufes that produced them, 

 they are adapted to excite devout feeling, and to produce 

 moral effetl, though they are juftly complained of as in 

 fome places unintelligible, and as affording too much fcope 

 for criticilm. To many readers, the theology on which 

 they are founded and which they exprefs is too awful and 

 fevere, and not fo well calculated to footh and pacify the 

 hum^n mind under trouble as the gentler and more confo- 

 latory diftates of Chriftianity. They are fometimes tedious 

 and jirolix. They will never be negledled as long as tafte 

 and fufceptibility of virtuous and religious impreffions re- 

 main. The lyric attempts of Dr. Young are faid to have 

 been Angularly unfortunate. From the edition of his works 

 publifhed in his life-time in 4 vols. 8vo., he himfelf excluded 

 feveral compofitions which he thought of inferior merit. 

 Biog. Brit. Croft's Life of Young in Johnfon's Englifh 

 Poets. Gen. Biog. 



YouxG, Patrick, [Patridus Junius, Lat.), an eminent 

 fcholar, was born in 1584, at the feat of his father, fir Peter 

 Young, who had been co-tutor with Buchanan to James VI. 

 of Scotland, at Seaton in Lothian. Educated in the univer- 

 fity of St. Andrew's, and accompanying his father in the 

 fuiteof king James, he was employed for fome time as libra- 

 rian and fecretary, by Dr. Lloyd, bilhop of Chefter. In 

 1605 he affumed the degree of M.A. which he had before 

 taken at St. Andrew's, and entering into orders, became 

 chaplain at All Souls' college. During his refidence at 

 Oxford he occupied himfelf in the ftudy of ecclefiaftical 

 hiftory and antiquities, and alfo the Greek language ; and 

 upon his removal to London, he obtained a penfion of 50/. 

 a year, and was occafionally employed by the king and 

 perfons in power in writing Latin letters. His patron was 

 Montagu, bifhop of Bath and Wells, who procured for him 

 the appointment of librarian to the king. In 1617 he was 

 introduced at Paris, bv the recommendation of Camden, 

 to the learned men of that city ; and upon his return, he 

 afillled Thomas Rhead in making a Latin verfion of the 

 works of king James. In 1620 he married, and afterwards 

 was advanced to feveral preferments in the church ; and 

 fucceeded Rhead in 1624 as Latin fecretary. Unknown by 

 any publication, he was neverthelefs honoured as a perfon of 

 diftinguifhed literature, who rendered acceptable and ufeful 

 fervices to learned men. In this way, he was the coadjutor 

 of Selden in the examination of the Arundelian marbles ; 

 and when they were pubhfhed by this celebrated antiquary, 

 he dedicated the work to Young. He was alfo employed 

 in collating the Alexandrian MS. of the Bible with other 

 copies ; and as the refult of his labours, he communicated 

 many various readings to Grotius, Ufher, and other per- 

 fons. It was his intention to have edited a fac-fimile of this 

 MS., but his defign was never executed. He pubhfhed, 

 however, in 1633, from this MS. the " Epiftles of Clemens 

 Romanus," and he propofed editing the curious MSS. from 

 the king's library ; but the civil wars, and the feizure of the 

 royal^ library, prevented the accomplifhment of his purpofe. 

 During the troubles of this period, he fought an afylum 

 with a fon-in-law, at Bromfield in EfTex, where he died in 

 1652. 



Young is faid to have indulged to excefs a difpoCtion to 

 oblige, which led him to lend valuable MSS. belonging to 

 the royal library to foreigners and others ; and he has been 

 charged with betraying his truft, by not returning MSS. 

 which he removed to his own houfe in contemplation of the 

 pillage of the library, and thefe were fold among his other 

 eifeds. To obviate this imputation, it lias been alleged 



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that he purchafed for himfelf many MSS. from Greeks 

 who vifited this country. Smith's Vit. Erudit. Viror 

 Gen. Biog. 



YouxG is a name borne by many perfons connefted with 

 and remarkable in fome way or other for ufeful talents in 

 the arts. Charles Young, organift of Catharine-cree 

 church, near the Tower, father of three daughters, who 

 were all pubhc fingers : Coecilia, the eldeft, was an ^leve of 

 Geminiani, fpoke Italian well, fung in many of Handel's 

 later operas, and was afterwards married to Dr. Arne ; the 

 fecond Mifa Young, Ifabella, was married to the ingenious 

 and excellent compofer Mr. Lampe, who fet the Dragon of 

 Wantley ; and the third Mifs Young, Efter, afterwards 

 Mrs. Johes, fung on the flage at Covent-Garden theatre to the 

 time of their deaths. Charles, the father of thefe ladies, was, 

 we believe, the fon of Anthony Young, a mufician and mufic 

 feller in St. Paul's church-yard, commonly called Tony 

 Young, who has been faid by fome of the family to have 

 fet " God fave great George our King." But at the time 

 of the rebellion of 1745, when this air was revived, which 

 Dr. Ame's mother affured us was written and fet for king 

 James II., when the prince of Orange was hovering over 

 the coaft previous to the Revolution ; no claim' was then 

 made by the defcendants of Anthony Young, or of any 

 other compofer of this air, which no one durft fing or own 

 after the abdication of king James, without incurring the 

 penalty of treafon to king William ; fo that the fong or 

 hymn lay dormant, and the author concealed for near fixtv 

 years, before it was applied to king George II. 



There is a quibbhng glee in the firil volume of Purcell's 

 catches on two perfons of the name of Young, father and 

 fon, who lived in St. Paul's church-yard ; the one was an 

 inftrument-maker, and the other an excellent performer on 

 the violin : 



" You fcrapers that want a good fiddle well ftrung. 

 You muil go to the man that is old while he's Young, 

 But if this fame fiddle you fain would play bold. 

 You mufl go to his fon, who'll be Young when he's old. 

 There's old Young and young Young, both men of 



renown, 

 Old fells, and young plays, the beft fiddle in town ; 

 Young and old live together, and may they live long. 

 Young to play an old fiddle, old to fell a new fong." 



Another Young, of the fame family, the proprietor of a 

 mufic-fhop in St. Paul's church-yard till the middle of the 

 laft century, had a relation, an excellent performer on the 

 violin, known by the name of C^'n-Young, from the length 

 of that feature, who led at almoft all the concerts within 

 Temple-bar, particularly at the Blue-coat fchool chapel, 

 Chrift's hofpital, on a Sunday evening, where there ufed to 

 be a performance of facred mufic. 



Mifs Young, afterwards the hon. Mrs. Scot, and her 

 filler Mrs. Bartleman, both public fingers, feem to have 

 been the laft remains of the mufical family of Young. 



Young. See Generation, Conception, Gestatio.v, 

 Embryo, Fcetus, Delivery, Child, &c. 



In the army, that regiment, or officer, is faid to be the 

 younger, junior, which was laft raifed, or whofe commiffion 

 is of lateft date, whatever be the age of the man, or how- 

 ever long he may have ferved in other capacities. 



YoLXG Plantatiqns, Securing and Sheltering of, in Rural 

 Economy. See Plantation and Sheltering. 



Young Frederick's IJland, in Geography, a fmall ifland 

 among Queen Ciarlotte'o iflands, in Port Ingraham. 



Young Nicl's Head, a cape on the eaft coaft of New 

 Zealand, fo called from Nicholas Young, a boy on board 



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