. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. ver dreamed of oppos-ing or undermining her. His greatest originality is in the theological text-book of the schools forhundreds of years; and Arnold of Brescia, one of the noblest cham-pions of human liberty, though condemned and banished by the secondCouncil of the Lateran. The best biography of Abelard is that by Charles de Remusat (2vols., 8vo, Paris, 1845). See also, in English, Wights <Abelard andEloise* (New York, 1853).. HELOISE TO ABELARD A LETTER of yours sent to a friend, best beloved, to console himin affliction, was
. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. ver dreamed of oppos-ing or undermining her. His greatest originality is in the theological text-book of the schools forhundreds of years; and Arnold of Brescia, one of the noblest cham-pions of human liberty, though condemned and banished by the secondCouncil of the Lateran. The best biography of Abelard is that by Charles de Remusat (2vols., 8vo, Paris, 1845). See also, in English, Wights <Abelard andEloise* (New York, 1853).. HELOISE TO ABELARD A LETTER of yours sent to a friend, best beloved, to console himin affliction, was lately, almost by a chance, put into myhands. Seeing- the superscription, g^ess how eagerly Iseized it! I had lost the reality; I hoped to draw some comfortfrom this faint image of you. But alas! — for I well remember —every line was written with gall and wormwood. How you retold our sorrowful history, and dwelt on your inces-sant afflictions! Well did you fulfill that promise to your friend. 28 ABELARD that, in comparison with your own, his misfortunes should seembut as trifles. You recalled the persecutions of your masters, thecruelty of my uncle, and the fierce hostility of your fellow-pupils,Albericus of Rheims, and Lotulphus of Lombardy — how throughtheir plottings that glorious book your Theology was burned, andyou confined and disgraced — you went on to the machinations ofthe Abbot of St. Denys and of your false brethren of the con-vent, and the calumnies of those wretc
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