The Love Letters of Abelard and HeloiseJ. M. Dent and Company, 1908 - 132 pages |
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... rules of divinity agreeable to the Holy Fathers and Councils . In the meanwhile the enemies that my new fame had raised up , - and especially Alberic and Lotulf , who , after the death of their masters Champeaux and Anselm , assumed the ...
... rules of divinity agreeable to the Holy Fathers and Councils . In the meanwhile the enemies that my new fame had raised up , - and especially Alberic and Lotulf , who , after the death of their masters Champeaux and Anselm , assumed the ...
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... rule or order . Could you see the abbey , Philintus , you would not recognise it for one : the doors and walls are without any ornament save the heads of wild boars and the feet of hinds , which are nailed up , and the hides of ...
... rule or order . Could you see the abbey , Philintus , you would not recognise it for one : the doors and walls are without any ornament save the heads of wild boars and the feet of hinds , which are nailed up , and the hides of ...
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... rules of good breeding when I was to hear news of Abelard . But how dear did my curiosity cost me ! What disturbance did it occasion , and how surprised I was to find the whole letter filled with a particular and melan- choly account of ...
... rules of good breeding when I was to hear news of Abelard . But how dear did my curiosity cost me ! What disturbance did it occasion , and how surprised I was to find the whole letter filled with a particular and melan- choly account of ...
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... rules . Your yoke will be lighter if that hand support me under it ; your exercises will be pleasant if he show me their advantage . Retirement and soli- tude will no longer seem terrible if I may know that I still have a place in his ...
... rules . Your yoke will be lighter if that hand support me under it ; your exercises will be pleasant if he show me their advantage . Retirement and soli- tude will no longer seem terrible if I may know that I still have a place in his ...
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... rule our affections ? And What a troublesome employment is love ! And how valuable is virtue even upon consideration of our own ease ! Recollect your extravagancies of passion , guess at my distractions ; number up our cares , our ...
... rule our affections ? And What a troublesome employment is love ! And how valuable is virtue even upon consideration of our own ease ! Recollect your extravagancies of passion , guess at my distractions ; number up our cares , our ...
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