The Love Letters of Abelard and HeloiseJ. M. Dent and Company, 1908 - 132 pages |
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... leave the glory of battles and the pomp of triumphs ; nay , more , I yielded them up my birthright and patrimony . I knew necessity was the great spur to study , and was afraid I should not merit the title of learned if I distinguished ...
... leave the glory of battles and the pomp of triumphs ; nay , more , I yielded them up my birthright and patrimony . I knew necessity was the great spur to study , and was afraid I should not merit the title of learned if I distinguished ...
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... leave you to imagine whether my absence was not regretted by the better sort . At length I recovered my health , when I received news that my greatest adversary had taken the habit of a monk ; you may think it was an act of penitence ...
... leave you to imagine whether my absence was not regretted by the better sort . At length I recovered my health , when I received news that my greatest adversary had taken the habit of a monk ; you may think it was an act of penitence ...
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... leaves and branches , but barren of fruit . I came to him with a desire to learn , but found him like the fig tree in the Gospel , or the old oak to which Lucan compares Pompey . I continued not long underneath his shadow . I took for ...
... leaves and branches , but barren of fruit . I came to him with a desire to learn , but found him like the fig tree in the Gospel , or the old oak to which Lucan compares Pompey . I continued not long underneath his shadow . I took for ...
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... leave you to judge whether I deserved so severe a correction . I had always an aversion for those light women whom ' tis a reproach to pursue ; I was ambitious in my choice , and wished to find some obstacles , that I might surmount ...
... leave you to judge whether I deserved so severe a correction . I had always an aversion for those light women whom ' tis a reproach to pursue ; I was ambitious in my choice , and wished to find some obstacles , that I might surmount ...
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... leave the Canon's house and my dear Heloise . But this separation of our persons the more firmly united our minds ; and the desperate condition we were reduced to made us capable of attempting anything . My intrigues gave me but little ...
... leave the Canon's house and my dear Heloise . But this separation of our persons the more firmly united our minds ; and the desperate condition we were reduced to made us capable of attempting anything . My intrigues gave me but little ...
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