The Love Letters of Abelard and HeloiseJ. M. Dent and Company, 1908 - 132 pages |
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... learning as to their military exercises . As I was his eldest , and consequently his favourite son , he took more than ordinary care of my education . I had a natural genius for study , and made extra- ordinary progress in it . Smitten ...
... learning as to their military exercises . As I was his eldest , and consequently his favourite son , he took more than ordinary care of my education . I had a natural genius for study , and made extra- ordinary progress in it . Smitten ...
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Peter Abelard. peaux He con- cunning as before I had done over his learning . quers My lectures were always crowded , and my begin- Cham- nings so fortunate , that I entirely obscured the renown of my famous master . Flushed with these ...
Peter Abelard. peaux He con- cunning as before I had done over his learning . quers My lectures were always crowded , and my begin- Cham- nings so fortunate , that I entirely obscured the renown of my famous master . Flushed with these ...
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... learning . If you consulted him upon any difficulty , the sure consequence was to be much more uncertain in the point . They who only saw him admired him , but those who rea- soned with him were extremely dissatisfied . He was a great ...
... learning . If you consulted him upon any difficulty , the sure consequence was to be much more uncertain in the point . They who only saw him admired him , but those who rea- soned with him were extremely dissatisfied . He was a great ...
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... learning them , and by luckily applying my thoughts and verses they obtained favours which perhaps they would not otherwise have gained . This gave our amours such an éclat that the lives of Heloise and Abelard were the subject of all ...
... learning them , and by luckily applying my thoughts and verses they obtained favours which perhaps they would not otherwise have gained . This gave our amours such an éclat that the lives of Heloise and Abelard were the subject of all ...
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... learning , all that can make a person valuable meet in her . You may adore all this if you please , but not to flatter you , what is beauty but a flower which may be blasted by the least fit of sickness ? When those features with which ...
... learning , all that can make a person valuable meet in her . You may adore all this if you please , but not to flatter you , what is beauty but a flower which may be blasted by the least fit of sickness ? When those features with which ...
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