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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    vated a taste for classical literature, which it was his earnest endeavour to impress upon the mind of his grandson. It is stated that whilst domesticated with him, he had learnt to read with fluency when he was two years old, and that soon after this, in the intervals of his attendance on a vil¬ lage schoolmistress, he was made to commit to me¬ mory a number of English poems, and even some Latin ones, the words of which he retained without difficulty, although at the time unacquainted with their meaning. Before he was six years old, he attended the seminary of a dissenting minister, and went after¬ wards to a school at Bristol, where he remained about a year and a half, and where the deficiency of the instructor appears to have advanced the studies of the pupil, as he here first became his own teacher, and had by himself studied the last pages of the books used, before he had reached the middle under the eye of the master. His father had a neighbour, a man of great ingenuity, by profession a land surveyor and land steward; and in his office, during his holidays, he was indulged with the use of mathema¬ tical and philosophical instruments, together with the perusal of three volumes of a Dictionary