Memoirs of Edward Gibbon Esq
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This seclusion from English society was attended with the most solid benefits. In the Pays de Vaud the French language is used with less imperfection than in most of the distant provinces of France : in Pavilliard s family necessity compelled me to listen and to speak ; and if I was at first disheartened by the apparent slowness, in a few months I was as tonished by the rapidity, of my progress. My pronun ciation was formed by the constant repetition of Jthe same sounds ; the variety of words a...nd idioms, the rules of grammar and distinctions of genders, were im pressed in my memory; ease and freedom were obtained by practice, correctness and elegance by labor; and before I was recalled home, French, in which I spon taneously thought, was more familiar than English to EDWARD GIBBOX. 99 my ear, my tongue, and my pen. The first effect of this opening knowledge was the revival of my love of reading, which had been chilled at Oxford ; and I soon turned over, without much choice, almost all the French books in my tutor s library.
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This seclusion from English society was attended with the most solid benefits. In the Pays de Vaud the French language is used with less imperfection than in most of the distant provinces of France : in Pavilliard s family necessity compelled me to listen and to speak ; and if I was at first disheartened by the apparent slowness, in a few months I was as tonished by the rapidity, of my progress. My pronun ciation was formed by the constant repetition of Jthe same sounds ; the variety of words a...nd idioms, the rules of grammar and distinctions of genders, were im pressed in my memory; ease and freedom were obtained by practice, correctness and elegance by labor; and before I was recalled home, French, in which I spon taneously thought, was more familiar than English to EDWARD GIBBOX. 99 my ear, my tongue, and my pen. The first effect of this opening knowledge was the revival of my love of reading, which had been chilled at Oxford ; and I soon turned over, without much choice, almost all the French books in my tutor s library.
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