A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman

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Fabricius (see entry), for embodying especially republican virtues, liv-
ing out his civic duties both as a general and as a private farmer.
Young, Edward (1683 –1765). English clergyman, poet, and dramatist. He
wrote several famous tragic plays, notably Bursis, King of Egypt (1719)
and The Revenge (1721), with which Wollstonecraft was familiar. He
wrote a famous collection of poems, The Complaint, or Night Thoughts
(1742–1745), which led to the formation of the “graveyard school” of
poets.