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By th ^ irhrtiw ' s sweat their bread the lafbotutelrs earn , But theii no passions in their bosoms burn : Soon as the evening'shades the day-light clqse ? Unbroken slumbers crown their soft repose ; * And when the morning' dawn salutes their
cves v * Anteus-like , with double vigour rise . No stings of conscience ! no remorse from sin ! They Feel the noblest paradise within ; Content serene , that sunshine of the soul , Withlier warm beam invigorates the whole ; Her tribssotn - health ! her fruit , untainted
joy J Nor pain nor death her relish can destroy ; In unpolluted streams her pleasures flow , No weedy passions in her bosom grow . ' —Thus faintly have I sketched tny glorious plan , Which fills , improves , adorns the inward
man . Still urge thy gen ' rous task , to cleanse the mind , Till from tHe dregs of passion ' tis refinM j To prine each vice , each folly of the Each wild excrescence of this earthly
TTjbo' old in goodness , to the world resigned , Still want tliylieaven to give it tomankind . Jteligipn's friend ! and virtue ' s strongest
jjnard ! Tliat hfeaven alone such merit can reward , Its joys approach no tongue but thine can tell ; -Doubt not to taste what th 6 u describ ' st so
well /' With such talents , and with such cmuiexitms , it cannot easily be acctiurited for , that Mt . Pyle should remain during so long a life in a situation bf cdnipafaitiVe obscurity . Sir Robert Walpole was the member for Lynn ; and bofti the political arid ire ^ Jigious opinions of S 4 r . ? J ^ e were calculated to recommend him to Queen
Caroline , who then impartially dispensed the dignities of the church . J&efhkps the spirit of the rtian was not thought ^ Sufficiently accommodating for an introduction to a court ; or , like thfeM ^ Dr . O ^ deft , of Cambridge , frpm . gdme deficiency of exterrlal polish , he mxfeiit be deemted n < 5 t
proilucible . A passagq in Arcfibishop Herring ' s Correspondence with Mr . Duncoiribe seems t ; o be : decisive on this point . " Tom Pylfe is a learned and worthy , as well as a lively crnd enter ^ rhiijg !" ltt » Vi . To be sure lite st $ eccss has not been equal to his mei it ?
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* H ^ # WjP 1 ^ emea stlre owing to himself y IBr yiflt ve impetuosity of spirit , whicH , Und 2 proper government , renders him the agreeable creature he is , has , iDsom circumstances of life , got the tetter
of him , and hurt his views /* * f ^ whatever cause , with the exception of a Prebend of Salisbury , which he received from Bp . Hbadly , he was only in succession lecturer and
minister of Lynn , Sti Margaret , and vicar of Lynn , All-saints—all truly but a pbor and pdltry pittance for sttefc a man , and from a church which had such immense abundance bf gfiod things to bestow ; most of wliich too were actually bestowed 6 n far umvdrthier objects . —^ -The following
* It must &ot here he concealed ,. that his reputed heterodoxy , especiall y in w . gard to the Athanasian Trinity , migBt also he among the causes , if it was not indwd the very chief cause of his failure in the poi nt of ecclesiastical prefernient . that Be was decidedly averse to AthaAasianisin , and made no secret of that aversion , is very well known ; a remarkable itisfance of which was related "fr y his son , Dr .
Edmund Pyle , in a letter to one of bis female friends , dated August 4 , 1747 ; a copy of which has fallen into the hands of the present writer . The passage alluded to is as follows : —— My F- —r has heen excessive hoarse and stuffed add oppre&eaon the lungs , and after physic had in vain
attempted his relief , he went abroad ^ fne weather being- fine , to view his rieWch—Ajit wheYe thev are putting up a magnififcew £ _ lj , _ t , as the finishing stroke . Th « re ifiesigfit ' of the Tr—ty in Un—ty erabletbatically displayed in the front panne ! of the said p—lp—^ t put him into such a passion , that you would have sworn , that ^ ith distemper and indignation he must nijye been suffocated : but G—tt oe praised
nature £ ot the better both of llic ih—& tJ and the < $£ ease , ahel thfrconflict produced , what medicines cbuld not , a free and large ekpectbration , tfftich was succeeded T > y * fit of-as blear arid audible raring , a » a man would whh to hear from a sound
Protestant divine , on so provoking an occasion . " This letter-writer to be sure vras an arch and wicked dogj but there can be no doubt of his statement feeing fpun ^ on fact : tnid when it is conside red how their reputed heterodoxy affected CltrW j WtisVon , and otliers of Fyle ^ s eminen c ^^ emporati ^ it will not appear very strange that nls rewards were not equal to ffis iiiertti , ortKat His p ^ ferments were few ^ diVicotisTaeW . oie . __!—~ t Thr ^ was $ t . War ^ aret ' s , tKen ^ uilt
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266 Memoir of the Ret . Thomas Pyle , M . A .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1815, page 266, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1760/page/2/
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