The Love Letters of Abelard and HeloiseJ. M. Dent and Company, 1908 - 132 pages |
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... Reason and religion are thrown to the winds ; he would marry her , but she loves with a devotion as mad as his , and marriage would arrest his advancement in the Church , so she refuses - yet gives him all . Her child is born , and then ...
... Reason and religion are thrown to the winds ; he would marry her , but she loves with a devotion as mad as his , and marriage would arrest his advancement in the Church , so she refuses - yet gives him all . Her child is born , and then ...
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... reasons philosophy could fur- nish , which I thought might anyways soften the strokes of fortune . But all these endeavours have proved useless ; grief , I perceive , has wholly seized your spirits , and your prudence , far from ...
... reasons philosophy could fur- nish , which I thought might anyways soften the strokes of fortune . But all these endeavours have proved useless ; grief , I perceive , has wholly seized your spirits , and your prudence , far from ...
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... I distinguished myself from others by nothing but a more plenti- ful fortune . Of all the sciences logic was the most to my taste . Such were the arms I chose to profess . Furnished with the weapons of reason- His ing 2 LETTER I.
... I distinguished myself from others by nothing but a more plenti- ful fortune . Of all the sciences logic was the most to my taste . Such were the arms I chose to profess . Furnished with the weapons of reason- His ing 2 LETTER I.
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Peter Abelard. profess . Furnished with the weapons of reason- His ing I took pleasure in going to public disputations youthful to win trophies ; and wherever I heard that this struggles art flourished , I ranged , like another Alexander ...
Peter Abelard. profess . Furnished with the weapons of reason- His ing I took pleasure in going to public disputations youthful to win trophies ; and wherever I heard that this struggles art flourished , I ranged , like another Alexander ...
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... reasons of this kind , but I angrily interrupted her , telling her only that she did not know Heloise . A few days after we departed together from Brittany and came to Paris , where I completed my project . It was my intent my marriage ...
... reasons of this kind , but I angrily interrupted her , telling her only that she did not know Heloise . A few days after we departed together from Brittany and came to Paris , where I completed my project . It was my intent my marriage ...
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