 | Vicesimus Knox - English letters - 1790 - 912 pages
...kind to repent > our fon 's admiffion into Bene't college, where I wiih him every poflible fuccefs. Tom Pyle§ is a learned and worthy, as well as a lively and entertaining man. To be fare, his fuccefs has not been equal to hi» merit, which yet, perhaps, is in fome meafure owing to... | |
 | Biography - 1798 - 514 pages
...friend of both thofe eminent men. The following teftimonials may be recorded to his honour [p] : " Tom Pyle is a learned and worthy, as well as a lively and entertaining man. To be fure, his fuccefs has not been equal to his merit, which yet, perhaps, is in fome meafure owing to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 540 pages
...obscurity. This, according to a passage in one of archbishop Herring's letters to Mr. Duncomh, was, " in some measure, owing to himself ; for that very...proper government, renders him the agreeable creature he is, has, in some circumstances of life, got the better of him, and hurt his views." This probably... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1813 - 720 pages
...inferior to himself. In his " Letters to William Duncorrbe, Esq.,"p.8c., Archbishop Herring says of him, " Tom Pyle is a learned and •worthy, as well as a...proper government, renders him the agreeable creature he is, has, in some circumstances of life, got the better of him, and hurt his views." What Mr. Pyle... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1815 - 880 pages
...might l)e deemed not producible. A passage in Archbishop Herring's Correspondence with Mr. Duncombe seems to be decisive on this point. " Tom Pyle is...learned and worthy, as well as a lively and entertaining wan. To be sure his succew toa* not been equal to hU merit, which yet, perhaps, is in gome measure... | |
 | 1815 - 876 pages
...might be deemed not producible. A passage iu Archbishop Herring's Correspondence with Mr. Duncombe seems to be decisive on this point " Tom Pyle is a...learned and worthy, as well as a lively and entertaining шаг». То be sure his sueсек hu not been '•••;Л to bis merit, «•Inch yet, perhaps,... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1815 - 866 pages
...polish, he might be deemed notproducible. A passage in Abp. Herring's Correspondence with Mr. Duncombe seems to be decisive on this point : " Tom Pyle is...not been equal to his merit, which yet, perhaps, is iu some measure owing to himself; for that very impetuosity of spirit which, under proper government,... | |
 | John Chambers - Norfolk (England) - 1829 - 654 pages
...on plain and practical subjects. " Tom Pyle," says archbishop Herring, in a letter to Mr. Newconib, "is a learned and worthy, as well as a lively and...proper government, renders him the agreeable creature he is, has in some circumstances of life got the better of him, and hurt his views." He was prel>endary... | |
 | John Chambers - 1829 - 698 pages
...on plain and practical subjects. " Tom Pyle," says archbishop Herring, in a letter to Mr. Newcomb, " is a learned and worthy, as well as a lively and entertaining...that very impetuosity of spirit, which, under proper goverument, renders him the agreeable creature he is, has in some circumstances of life got the better... | |
 | Robert Theodore Gunther, Amy Neville Rolfe Günther - Norfolk (England) - 1914 - 508 pages
...dose all Lynn with " physic and divinity." " He was one of the most admired preachers of his time." " A learned and worthy, as well as a lively and entertaining man" (Richards). * Sir Willoughby Aston was a neighbour of Dr. Burney in 1760 : hia daughters were at school... | |
| |
Tom Pyle is a learned and worthy, as well as a lively and entertaining man. To be sure his success has not been equal to his merit, which yet, perhaps, is in... 