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THE LOVE LETTERS OF ABELARD AND HELOISE

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THE LOVE LETTERS OF ABELARD AND HELOISE


_Translated from the original latin and now reprinted from the
edition of 1722: together with a brief account of their lives and
work_

RALPH FLETCHER SEYMOURA.CHICAGO

  Copyright 1903
  by
  Ralph Fletcher Seymour




THE STORY OF ABELARD AND HELOISE.


It sometimes happens that Love is little esteemed by those who choose
rather to think of other affairs, and in requital He strongly
manifests His power in unthought ways. Need is to think of Abelard
and Heloise: how now his treatises and works are memories only, and