...without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son, my wound was...My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquility and cheerfulness of the lady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem.''...

...youth and passion were crushed, on my return, by the prejudice or prudence of an English parent. 1 sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was...healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life; and my cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquility and cheerfulness of the Lady herself....

...all else about him, has become classical. ' I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as 'a son.' He proceeds: 'My wound was insensibly ' healed by time, absence and the habits of a new life.' It is shocking. Never, surely, was love so flouted before. Gibbon is charitably supposed by some persons...

...from tender memories of her. Gibbon did not make the faintest show of résistance to his father : " I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. My wound was...healed by time, absence and the habits of a new life." His words seem to describe the recovery from a scratch rather than a wound. We are all eager to sympathise...

...I was destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lever, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed...and my love subsided in friendship and esteem." The deliberate misrepresentation of the course of events is proved by the date of the aforesaid letter,...

...the lady married M. Necker, and became the mother of Madame de Stael. Gibbon himself says that— " My wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life : and my cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and chearfulness of the lady...

...all else about him, has become classical. 'I sighed as a lover, 'I obeyed as a son.' He proceeds : 'My ' wound was insensibly healed by time, ab'sence and the habits of a new life.' It is shocking. Never, surely, was love so flouted before. Gibbon is charitably supposed by some persons...

...without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate: I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was...subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of Crassy soon afterwards died; his stipend died with him: his daughter retired to Geneva, where, by teaching...

...without his consent, I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound...herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem.' Such is Gibbon's story, which is also the accepted story. It is, perhaps, a palliation of its inaccuracies...

...of youth and passion were crushed, on my return, by the prejudice or prudence of an English parent. unds and wan and my cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquility and • cheerfulness of the Lady...