THE COMPLAINT; OR, NIGHT THOUGHTS, ON LIFE, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY. BY EDWARD YOUNG, LL.D TO WHICH IS ADDED, A PARAPHRASE ON PART OF THE BOOK OF JOB. EDINBURGH: Printed at the University Press, for MEMOIRS OF DR. EDWARD YOUNG. THIS celebrated and excellent writer was the son of Dr. Edward Young, a learned and eminent divine, who was Dean of Sarum, Fellow of Winchester College, and Rector of Upham, in Hampshire. Our author was born at Upham, in the year 1681, and had his education at Winchester College, till he was chosen on the foundation of New College, Oxford, October 13, 1703, but removed in less than a year to Corpus Christi, where he entered himself a Gentleman Commoner. Archbishop Tennison put him into a law fellowship in 1708, in the college of All Souls. He took the degree of Bachelor in 1714, and became LL D. in 1719. His tragedy of Busiris came out the same year; the Revenge in 1721; the Brothers in 1723; and soon after, |