The Love Letters of Abelard and HeloiseJ. M. Dent and Company, 1908 - 132 pages |
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... 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 assisting , seems to have forsaken you . But my ...
... 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 assisting , seems to have forsaken you . But my ...
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... thought it no praise to be illiterate , but in the camp he knew how to converse at the same time with the Muses and Bellona . He was the same in the management of his family , and took equal care to form his children to the study of ...
... thought it no praise to be illiterate , but in the camp he knew how to converse at the same time with the Muses and Bellona . He was the same in the management of his family , and took equal care to form his children to the study of ...
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... thought I had no further need for Champeaux's lectures , but rather that I was suffi- ciently qualified to read to others . I stood for a post which was vacant at Melun . My master used all his artifice to defeat my hopes , but in vain ...
... thought I had no further need for Champeaux's lectures , but rather that I was suffi- ciently qualified to read to others . I stood for a post which was vacant at Melun . My master used all his artifice to defeat my hopes , but in vain ...
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... thought of nothing but Heloise ; every- thing brought her image to my mind . I was pensive and restless , and my passion was so violent as to admit of no restraint . I was always vain and presumptive ; I flattered myself already with ...
... thought of nothing but Heloise ; every- thing brought her image to my mind . I was pensive and restless , and my passion was so violent as to admit of no restraint . I was always vain and presumptive ; I flattered myself already with ...
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... thought philosophy made us masters of all our passions , and that it was a refuge from the storms in which weak mortals are tossed and shipwrecked ; but you have destroyed my security and broken this philosophic courage . I have ...
... thought philosophy made us masters of all our passions , and that it was a refuge from the storms in which weak mortals are tossed and shipwrecked ; but you have destroyed my security and broken this philosophic courage . I have ...
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