Memoir of the life of Thomas Young M.D., F.R.S. With a catalogue of his works and essays / [By Hudson Gurney].

  • Gurney, Hudson, 1775-1864.
Date:
1831
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    polis, who was well known both from his con¬ nexion with the first literary societies, and with the highest political circles of the times in which he lived. His parents were both of them of the society of Quakers, and of the strictest of a sect, whose fundamental principle it is, that the perception of what is right or wrong, to its minutest ramifi¬ cations, is to be looked for in the immediate in¬ fluence of a Supreme intelligence, and that there¬ fore the individual is to act upon this, lead where it may, and compromise nothing. To the bent of these early impressions he was accustomed in after¬ life to attribute, in some degree, the power he so eminently possessed of an imperturbable resolu¬ tion to effect any object on which he was en¬ gaged, which he brought to bear on every thing he undertook, and by which he was enabled to work out his own education almost from infancy, with little comparative assistance or direction from others. From a very early period Dr. Young was chiefly an inmate in the family of his maternal grand-fa¬ ther, Mr. Robert Davies, of Minehead; a gentle¬ man who amidst mercantile avocations, though no very deep or accurate scholar, had culti-