to his profession, being licentious and vicious himself, and an encourager of the king in all his private sensual gratifications. He was also extravagantly proud and ostentatious. He aspired to the popedom on the death of Leo X. and Adrian VI. but without success. At length he fell under the king's displeasure. His obsequiousness to the see of Rome, relating to Henry's divorce from queen Catherine, and some inferior circumstances, concurred to destroy his interest with his majesty; the great seal was demanded of him; his goods were all seized to the king's use, himself arrested for high treason, and committed to the custody of the lieutenant. He was arrested at York, Nov. 29, 1530, but died in his way to London, at Leicester-abbey, where he was buried. From his preferments, and by presents and pensions from foreign princes, his income is said to have exceeded the revenues of the crown; and he lived in the state and style of a sovereign prince, keeping 800 servants; among whom were nine or ten lords, fifteen knights, and 40 esquires. He was the patron of learned men, and a judge and munificent encourager of the polite arts.

YOUNG, (Dr. EDWARD) a celebrated writer, was born at Upham, near Winchester, in 1681. He was matriculated of All-Souls college, Oxford, being intended for the civil law, in which profession he took a degree. In 1704, he produced his poem entitled the "The Last Day." His next performance was "The Force of Reli

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gion; or Vanquished Love." These publications procured him many admirers and friends, among whom was Addison; for whose Spectator he furnished many papers. Being of a serious turn, he entered into orders, and was appointed chaplain to the king; after having obtained the living of Welwyn, in Hertfordshire, he wrote three tragedies, which were well received; but his "Love of Fame, the Universal Passion,' is more generally esteemed. In 1739, he married lady Elizabeth Lee, daughter of the Earl of Litchfield; but she died the following year. Her loss was so much lamented by the doctor, that it induced him to write "The Complaint, or Night Thoughts," which finely exhibit his melancholy and morality. It is a work by which his name will be immortalized. As a prose writer, he censured the prevailing manners in a performance called, "The Centaur not Fabulous, in Six Letters to a Friend, on the Life in Vogue;" and, when upwards of 80 years of age, published" Conjectures on original Composition." Few authors have attracted more respect by their works than Doctor Young. died in 1765, aged $4. ZENO, a stoic philosopher, and founder of the sect of stoics, so called from his opening a school in the portico of Stoa, in Athens. was born at Citium, in the isle of Cyprus; but being driven by a storm on the coast of Africa, he took up his residence there, and taught philosophy and logic: he was indeed the first person who brought logic to perfection. His dis

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ciples, it is said, maintained the right of selfmurder; and his servant being told that the plea of fate would exculpate him from any fault he should commit, exclaimed to Zeno, as he was beating him for theft, "It is my fate to be a thief," "Yes, sirrah," replied his master, "and it is also your fate to be drubbed for it."

ZEUXIS, of Heraclio, a very famous painter, who flourished about 400 years before Christ. Many curious anecdotes are recorded of this painter. Pliny relates his dispute with Parrhasius, in the following manner. Zeuxis had painted some grapes so naturally, that the birds used to come and peck at them, and Parrhasius had represented a curtain so artfully, that Zeuxis, mis-taking it for a real curtain which hid his rival's work, ordered it to be drawn aside, that he might see the painting behind it. Discovering his mistake, he confessed himself outdone, since he had only imposed upon birds, but Parrhasius had deceived even those who were judges of the art. Another time he painted a boy loaded with grapes, when the birds flew again to his picture. At this he was exceedingly vexed, and frankly acknowledged that it was not perfectly finished; since, had he represented the boy as naturally as the grapes, the birds would have been afraid of him. One of Zeuxis's finest pieces was a Hercules strangling some dragons in his cradle, in the presence of the affrighted mother. Some are of opinion, however, that Helena was the picture by which he gained the greatest reputation.

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He died immensely rich, about 350 years before Christ. We are told by Verrius Flaccus, that his death was occasioned by an immoderate fit of laughter, on looking at the picture of an old woman which he had drawn.

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