The Love Letters of Abelard and HeloiseJ. M. Dent and Company, 1908 - 132 pages |
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... rest of his time in reading lectures to those few pupils which followed him . After this I often engaged with him , and may reply to you as Ajax did to the Greeks : - ' If you demand the fortune of that day When stak'd on this right ...
... rest of his time in reading lectures to those few pupils which followed him . After this I often engaged with him , and may reply to you as Ajax did to the Greeks : - ' If you demand the fortune of that day When stak'd on this right ...
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... rest in peace ! -let me always meditate on your calamities , let me publish them through all the world , if possible , to shame an age that has not known how to value you . I will spare no one since no one would interest himself to ...
... rest in peace ! -let me always meditate on your calamities , let me publish them through all the world , if possible , to shame an age that has not known how to value you . I will spare no one since no one would interest himself to ...
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... rest here and wait for yours in order to show to the very last my obedience and devotion to you . it . Why should I conceal from you the secret of my call ? You know it was neither zeal nor devotion that brought me here . Your ...
... rest here and wait for yours in order to show to the very last my obedience and devotion to you . it . Why should I conceal from you the secret of my call ? You know it was neither zeal nor devotion that brought me here . Your ...
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... rest of the world , and which you now force from me , in spite of my resolutions to the contrary . It is true , that in a sense of the afflictions which have befallen us , and observing that no change of our condition could be expected ...
... rest of the world , and which you now force from me , in spite of my resolutions to the contrary . It is true , that in a sense of the afflictions which have befallen us , and observing that no change of our condition could be expected ...
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... rest in my memory without troubling my mind ; that Brit- tany and the sea would suggest other thoughts ; that my fasts and studies would by degrees delete you from my heart . But in spite of severe fasts and redoubled studies , in spite ...
... rest in my memory without troubling my mind ; that Brit- tany and the sea would suggest other thoughts ; that my fasts and studies would by degrees delete you from my heart . But in spite of severe fasts and redoubled studies , in spite ...
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