The Love Letters of Abelard and HeloiseJ. M. Dent and Company, 1908 - 132 pages |
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... took equal care to form his children to the study of polite learning as to their military exercises . As I was his eldest , and consequently his favourite son , he took more than ordinary care of my education . I had a natural genius ...
... took equal care to form his children to the study of polite learning as to their military exercises . As I was his eldest , and consequently his favourite son , he took more than ordinary care of my education . I had a natural genius ...
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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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... took on him the garb of feigned austerity ; for this is the easiest and shortest way to the highest ecclesiastical dignities . His wishes were success- ful and he obtained a bishopric ; yet did he not quit Paris and the care of his ...
... took on him the garb of feigned austerity ; for this is the easiest and shortest way to the highest ecclesiastical dignities . His wishes were success- ful and he obtained a bishopric ; yet did he not quit Paris and the care of his ...
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... took the same resolution . She turned a Religious , but did not entirely abandon the satisfactions of life ; her friends were continually at the grate , and the monastery , when one has an inclination to make it so , is exceedingly ...
... took the same resolution . She turned a Religious , but did not entirely abandon the satisfactions of life ; her friends were continually at the grate , and the monastery , when one has an inclination to make it so , is exceedingly ...
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... took all opportunities to express to each other our mutual affection , and were ingenious in contriving incidents which might give us a plausible occasion of meeting . Pyramus and Thisbe's discovery of the crack in the wall was but a ...
... took all opportunities to express to each other our mutual affection , and were ingenious in contriving incidents which might give us a plausible occasion of meeting . Pyramus and Thisbe's discovery of the crack in the wall was but a ...
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