A sketch of the life and character of the late Charles Brandon Trye, Esq. F.R.S., senior surgeon of the infirmary at Gloucester / by Daniel Lysons.

  • Lysons, Daniel, 1762-1834.
Date:
1812
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Credit: A sketch of the life and character of the late Charles Brandon Trye, Esq. F.R.S., senior surgeon of the infirmary at Gloucester / by Daniel Lysons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    Meditations on his Fortieth Bii'th-dat/. A'ig. 21, 1797. I Jim this day forty years old. The spring and suniiuer of my life are nearly gone, and the autumn is at hand, in which, if I do not drop, the dreary season of winter must soon follow, and finish the revolu-^ tion of my life. Being now at the summit of the hill, I will survey all sides, both that part of my journey which I have already executed, as well as what remains to be finished before I come to my final resting place. In the retrospect I perceive innumerable evils which I have escaped, neither by my own foresight, nor by my own sagacity ; and many difficulties which I have surmounted and overcome, but neither by my own courage, nor by my own strengtli. I feel a conviction that the Lord has been my shepherd, and therefore only have I lacked nothing, neither of temporal support, nor, I humbly hope, of the means which, through the merits of Jesus Christ, shall assist me effectually in the obtaining eternal salva- tion. My infantine tongue was taught, through the wise and affectionate care of my pious mother^ to praise and pray to my Lord and Saviour : my earliest ideas were impressed with a sense of his goodness and power, and *' my earliest hopes were directed to the enjoyment of eternal life. The impressions then received, have never been eradicated ; neither the converse of the profane and *' profligate, the objections of the infidel, whether found in books or in conversation, the example of bad company, nor the vices of which I myself have been guilty, liave 1