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But no sooner had I resolved to save my soul at the expence of my fortune, than I eloped to London and addressed myself to Mr. Lewis a Popish bookseller in Bussel street, who introduced me to a priest, perhaps a Jesuit, of his acquaintance.
228 GIBBON'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. [Memoib C.
That zealous missionary exposed his life to the rigour of our intolerant laws ; and on the eighth of June, 1753, I solemnly, though privately, abjured at his feet the errors of heresy. My father was neither a philosophe...r nor a bigot, but he deplored the loss of an only son; and his good sense could not understand or excuse my strange departure from the Eeligion of my Country.
The gates of Oxford were shut against my return ; no place in England was thought safe and convenient; and by the advice of his friends, the Protestant city of Lausanne in Switzerland was chosen for my exile and education. This plan, which was immediately executed, has been attended with the most salutary effects ; but I have since reflected with surprize, that the neighbouring priests of France and Savoy, who must have corresponded with their English brethren, should have made no attempts, by letters or messages, to rescue me from the hands of the heretics, or at least to confirm my zeal and constancy in the profession of the faith.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
But no sooner had I resolved to save my soul at the expence of my fortune, than I eloped to London and addressed myself to Mr. Lewis a Popish bookseller in Bussel street, who introduced me to a priest, perhaps a Jesuit, of his acquaintance.
228 GIBBON'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. [Memoib C.
That zealous missionary exposed his life to the rigour of our intolerant laws ; and on the eighth of June, 1753, I solemnly, though privately, abjured at his feet the errors of heresy. My father was neither a philosophe...r nor a bigot, but he deplored the loss of an only son; and his good sense could not understand or excuse my strange departure from the Eeligion of my Country.
The gates of Oxford were shut against my return ; no place in England was thought safe and convenient; and by the advice of his friends, the Protestant city of Lausanne in Switzerland was chosen for my exile and education. This plan, which was immediately executed, has been attended with the most salutary effects ; but I have since reflected with surprize, that the neighbouring priests of France and Savoy, who must have corresponded with their English brethren, should have made no attempts, by letters or messages, to rescue me from the hands of the heretics, or at least to confirm my zeal and constancy in the profession of the faith.
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