Essays and addresses / by John Young.

  • Young, John, 1835-1902.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Essays and addresses / by John Young. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Needham’s Select Lessons, and Tom Telescope’s Newtonian Philosophy. “ The next half-year, I spent almost entirely at home. My father had a neighbour of the name of Kingdon, a man of great ingenuity, who, though originally a tailor, had raised himself by his talents and good conduct to a respectable situation in life—being at that time a land-surveyor and also land-steward to several gentlemen in the neighbourhood. His daughters had always treated me, when a child, with great kindness, and I was in consequence very fond of going to his house, where I found many books relating to science and particularly a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, in three volumes, folio, which I began to read with the most intense interest and delight; at his house T also found several mathematical and philosophical instruments, the use of many of which I learnt, with the assistance of his daughters and his nephew. “ In March 1782, when nearly nine years of age, I was sent to the school of Mr. T. Thompson, at Compton in Dorsetshire, where I continued for nearly four years, having only left it for six months, during the year 1784. Mr. Thompson was a man of liberal and enlarged mind, who possessed a tolerable collec- tion of English and classical books, which his pupils were allowed to make use of It was his custom likewise to allow them a certain degree of discretion in the employment of their time :—the following is the list of books which I read with Mr. Thompson in the school. “ The remaining part of Phsedrus’s Fables and of Clarke’s Introduction, Cornelius Nepos, Selecta e Scriptoribus Romanis, Virgil, Horace expurgated by Knox, the Eton Selections from (Jicero, the Westminster Greek Grammar (the greater part of which I committed to memory), the whole of Beza’s Greek and Latin Testament, the Cyropaedia of Xenophon by Hutchin- son ; the First Seven Books of the Iliad, which I began in 1786. “ I also translated into Latin the whole of Garretson’s and Ellis’s Exercises. In Mathematics I read Walkinghame’s Tutor’s Assistant, Ewing’s Mathematics, omitting gunnery, and Dilworth’s Book-keeping.—The usher of the school was a very ingenious young man of the name of Josiah Jeffrey, who was in the habit of lending me books, and amongst them Benjamin Martin’s liectures on Natural Philosophy, and Ryland’s Intro- 4