Chapter

   1 XV  |          persecution" (II Tim. iii. 12). And elsewhere he says: "
   2 III |             Lucan, "Pharsalia," IV, 135-136) ~It was not long before
   3 III |         Lucan, "Pharsalia," IV, 135-136) ~It was not long before
   4 VIII|           my keeping (Matthew, xxv. 15), since surely He would
   5 XI  |      another Paraclete," John, xiv. 16). ~ Nay, since every church
   6 XV  |            would love his own" (ib. 18-19). And the apostle says: "
   7 XV  |             persecute you (John xv. 20). If the world hate you,
   8 VIII|            Thus in Leviticus (xxii. 24) is it said: "Ye shall not
   9 XV  |          that love God" (Rom. viii. 28). The wise man of old had
  10 XIII|          able to finish" (Luke xiv. 30). My despair grew still
  11 IX  |           our judges" (Deut. xxxii. 31). ~ These three, then, took
  12 VII |            from cares" (I Cor. vii. 32). But if I would heed neither
  13 II  |         Ovid: "Remedy for Love," I, 369.) ~ Not long thereafter,
  14 XIV |             is a sinner" (Luke vii. 39), might much more reasonably
  15 XIV |                 Juvenal, Sat. VI, v 459) ~  ~
  16 IX  |          what he doeth? (John, vii. 51). ~ When my rivals heard
  17 X   |            the wilderness" (Ps. iv. 7). ~ ~~
  18 VII |          sufficient hereto" (Epist. 73) ~ It matters little, she
  19 II  |               Metamorphoses," XIII, 89.) ~But even were I to be
  20 VIII|           Lucan, "Pharsalia," viii. 94.) ~With these words on her
  21 XV  |            the world hates" (Epist. 99). And to the monk Heliodorus
  22 VII |            pointed out, whether one abandons the study of philosophy
  23 X   |            as if scorning all other abbeys, and accordingly they considered
  24 I   |            THE BIRTHPLACE OF PIERRE ABELARD AND OF HIS PARENTS ~KNOW,
  25 V   |          Because I had ever held in abhorrence the foulness of prostitutes,
  26 VIII|           God holds eunuchs in such abomination that men thus maimed are
  27 VIII|            possible advantage of my absence to bring two principal charges
  28 VII |         they were speaking the most absolute lies. Her uncle, aroused
  29 X   |          than that the abbot should absolve me of the charge against
  30 VII |        their continence or by their abstinence from worldly pleasures. ~
  31 II  |            the essence alike of the abstract whole and of the individuals
  32 XI  |           grow soft amid luxury and abundance of riches, and lest their
  33 VI  |          above all by reason of her abundant knowledge of letters. Now
  34 XI  |          philosophy established his academy in a place remote from the
  35 VIII|             in such plight were not acceptable as sacrifices. Thus in Leviticus (
  36 III |            prophecy of Ezekiel. ~ I accepted the challenge, and invited
  37 VII |          wife, and by what a filthy accident he himself paid for this
  38 II  |          might grow out of the many accidents of existence. Thereafter,
  39 IX  |          perceiving that they would accomplish nothing if the trial were
  40 XIV |          own. Moreover, it had been accomplished with much less pain, being
  41 For |            at the most but of small account, and so shall you come to
  42 XV  |             a vagabond, even as the accursed Cain (Gen. iv. 14). I have
  43 XIV |     suspicion against me, with what accusations would they persecute me!
  44 X   |             even Thee for my shame, accusing Thee in my madness! Full
  45 VIII|           arts, to which I was more accustomed, and which was particularly
  46 X   |             himself had some slight acquaintance with me, and had compassion
  47 IX  |             chance I should thus be acquitted. They likewise went to the
  48 XIV |          thus did the holy apostles act, for St. Paul says: 'Have
  49 IX  |         legate himself, who was now acting under compulsion, would
  50 II  | oft-mentioned teacher, William, was active in the episcopate of Chalons.
  51 XI  |     athletes, in the versatility of actors, in the beauty of women,
  52 IV  |           of whom I have spoken was acutely smitten with envy, and straightway
  53 VII |      devoting himself," but he does add that he did not wish to
  54 V   |          came to believe me no less adept in lecturing on theology
  55 XIII|    monastery to seize all the lands adjacent thereto for his own use,
  56 II  |         then in these debates I was adjudged victor. Now this, to those
  57 VII |     resisted; it is vain to seek to adjust life to include them, and
  58 XIII|             in common which I might administer in their behalf, and each
  59 XI  |          blessings which the church administers are particularly ascribed?
  60 XI  |            the sacrifice? Who would admit that an altar is that of
  61 VII |             such arguments as these advanced by Theophrastus?" ~ Again,
  62 VI  |          name, and I possessed such advantages of youth and comeliness,
  63 XI  |         Spirit, from the day of Its advent, has had its special feast
  64 II  |        WILLIAM OF CHAMPEAUX ~OF HIS ADVENTURES AT MELUN, AT CORBEIL AND
  65 XV  |         suffer persecution. For our adversary goes about as a roaring
  66 X   |           him took the matter under advisement, saying that they would
  67 VII |           Jerome thus mentions this affair, writing about Socrates
  68 II  |            life, she so ordered her affairs as to do likewise. When
  69 XV  |        console himself amid all his afflictions with the thought that the
  70 VI  |           intimacy. ~ Thus, utterly aflame with my passion for this
  71 XIV |          thus: "And it came to pass afterward, that He went throughout
  72 VI  |             wish, for he was fairly agape for my money, and at the
  73 VI  |           rightly guess the burning agony of his sorrow and the bitterness
  74 XIV |           the other damsels of King Ahasuerus (Esther ii. 5). We read,
  75 XV  |         thus placing their own will ahead of the will of God. Farewell. ~  ~
  76 X   |            pity on me, and likewise aided by some of my scholars. ~
  77 II  |            held the poet: "Jealousy aims at the peaks; the winds
  78 II  |            experience. The boast of Ajax, though I speak it more
  79 XIV |     scarcely any pain at all. ~ But alas, I thought, the less I then
  80 XIV |             with food and clothing; albeit he may not have carnal intercourse
  81 X   |             as I. And lest I should allege ignorance, pretending that
  82 IV  |          thus begun. The pretext he alleged was that if by chance in
  83 XIII|          things. The less often she allowed herself to be seen, shutting
  84 VI  |            our neighbours sing them aloud." But no matter how slow
  85 II  |           potent reasoning first to alter his former opinion on the
  86 VIII|             of mine to describe the amazement which bewildered them, the
  87 VIII|            and how the tale of this amazing outrage would spread to
  88 XV  |        wealth; and I would that the ambition of those who voluntarily
  89 XV  |             peace? Nay, he lieth in ambush among the rich." ~ Inspired
  90 IX  |          outset I devoted myself to analysing the basis of our faith through
  91 XIII|      whereby I could make provision anew for my oratory. And so,
  92 XIV |           Philip was directed by an angel (Acts viii. 27). Such men,
  93 IX  |          there are many who will be angered thereby and that he will
  94 II  |            long, in truth, bear the anguish of what he felt to be his
  95 VII |        great detail the intolerable annoyances and the endless disturbances
  96 IX  |     subtlety of him who succeeds in answering them. As a result, my rivals
  97 XII |             flea with a lion, or an ant with an elephant, in very
  98 X   |            repeat the lament of St. Anthony: "Kindly Jesus, where wert
  99 VII |     Josephus defines in his Book of Antiquities (xviii. 2), calling them
 100     | anywhere
 101 XI  |             but carefully study the apostolic authority, and consider
 102 X   |             in utter despair at the apparent conspiracy of the whole
 103 IX  |  exceedingly popular, its clearness appealing particularly to all who
 104 VII |            her uncle would never be appeased by such satisfaction as
 105 X   |           deserts, it may either be approved or else condemned and corrected." ~
 106 VIII|     continually stirred up bishops, archbishops, abbots and whatever other
 107 II  |          teacher, that same William Archdeacon of Paris, had changed his
 108 VI  |       delights made us all the more ardent in our pursuit of them,
 109 XI  |             above the waters of the Arduzon, so that they seemed hermits
 110 XI  |              however, may perchance argue that churches are not built
 111 X   |          however, I fain would have arisen to profess and set forth
 112 I   |      Minerva. And—since I found the armory of logical reasoning more
 113 XI  |          cannot be taken unless the army of the foe has first rushed
 114 V   |         have devoted their lives to arousing the love of sacred study,
 115 VIII|             teaching of the secular arts, to which I was more accustomed,
 116 X   |             monks went so far as to ask me brazenly which of the
 117 VII |        while I all unsuspecting was asleep in a secret room in my lodgings,
 118 II  |           warranty of my youth, was aspiring despite my tender years
 119 XI  |      astonished, and some violently assailed my action, declaring that
 120 II  |         more frequent chance for my assaults in our battle of disputation. ~
 121 XII |           of the convening of a new assemblage of the clergy, I believed
 122 XII |            before their councils or assemblies as a heretic or one guilty
 123 VI  |          thereby. To this he gladly assented, pledging his own faith
 124 IX  |    straightway resorted to threats, asserting that neither my explanations
 125 X   |            the Apostles, wherein he asserts that Dionysius the Areopagite
 126 XI  |          Person to Whom the apostle assigned a spiritual temple we should
 127 XIII|            through the approval and assistance of the bishop of the district,
 128 XIV |        their time, seeing that they associated in such familiar intercourse
 129 V   |          from all excesses and from association with the women of noble
 130 XIII|           saw that my damnation was assured. Moreover, a certain lord
 131 XI  |          heard of this were greatly astonished, and some violently assailed
 132 X   |          the legate, who replied in astonishment that he could not believe
 133 VII |        shameful punishment, such as astounded the whole world; for they
 134 VI  |     simplicity was nothing short of astounding to me; I should not have
 135 VI  |            to a son, whom she named Astrolabe. Meanwhile her uncle after
 136 XV  |          whom I had brought with me ate thereof, not knowing that
 137 XII |         heretics of old hounded St. Athanasius. Often, God knows, I sank
 138 XI  |          circus, in the contests of athletes, in the versatility of actors,
 139 II  |          opinions, not infrequently attacking him in disputation, and
 140 XIII|      everything I had undertaken or attempted, so that above all others
 141 III |      challenge, and invited them to attend a lecture on the very next
 142 XV  |   straightway fell dead. As for the attendant who had dared to undertake
 143 XV  |             connivance of one of my attendants believing that I would take
 144 V   |            women of noble birth who attended the school, because I knew
 145 XIV |    complaining that I paid far less attention to their needs than I might
 146 VI  |         qualities which are wont to attract lovers, determined to unite
 147 XI  |          had done it for the reason attributed to me, the departure from
 148 IX  |             had been determined on, authorizing me to return to my monastery
 149 VII |     scholars and domestics, between authors and cradles, between books
 150 IX  |        citations of authority would avail me aught in this case. With
 151 VII |             of married life, to the avoidance of which the Apostle exhorts
 152 IX  |           to my monastery and there await such action as might be
 153 II  |     thereafter, when William became aware of the fact that almost
 154 XV  |          and while I was sojourning awhile in the house of one of my
 155 XII |           made it his boast that he bad revived the true monastic
 156 VIII|           luring my students by the bait of learning to the study
 157 VI  |        surpassing the most fragrant balm in sweetness. What followed?
 158 XV  |           on a journey, they bribed bandits to waylay me on the road
 159 XIII|          constantly. ~ The land was barbarous and its speech was unknown
 160 XV  |            worse than the others. I barely succeeded in escaping them,
 161 VII |           do in order not to prefer base voluptuousness to your sacred
 162 VIII|       unclean and filthy; nay, even beasts in such plight were not
 163 XI  |          same temple of God is made beautiful and is consecrated. What
 164 XI  |            coarse bread; their soft beds they exchanged for heaps
 165 VIII|   sufficient sustenance. ~ Here, as befitted my profession, I devoted
 166     | beforehand
 167 IX  |          within the power of God to beget Himself is sorely in error;
 168     | behind
 169 IX  |        Trinity, Book I": "Whosoever believes that it is within the power
 170 VIII|        Those way took who sought to belittle me in every possible advantage
 171 XIII|             to it as having legally belonged in earlier days to his monastery,
 172 XIV |            Christ Himself, or those belonging to Him, prophets and apostles,
 173     | below
 174 I   |             girded on the soldier's belt. And so it came about that
 175 VI  |             I had not sought it, to bend her to my will with threats
 176 XV  |            monks sought to slay St. Benedict! Methinks the same reason
 177 VII |            were united there in the benediction of wedlock her uncle and
 178 I   |         quick in fancy—that my mind bent itself easily to the study
 179 II  |            conversion of my father, Berengarius, to the monastic life, she
 180 XII |           regular order; the other (Bernard of Clairvaux) made it his
 181 VIII|            great numbers, endlessly beseeching both my abbot and me myself
 182 XV  |       weakness. ~ But now has Satan beset me to such an extent that
 183     | Besides
 184 X   |          prior accompanying me, and besought him to intercede in my behalf
 185 VI  |          him whose shame it chiefly bespoke, the girl's uncle, Fulbert.
 186 X   |            granted me permission to betake myself to any solitary place
 187 VIII|             however, to which I had betaken myself was utterly worldly
 188 VIII|           whom I had myself already betrayed; and then I thought how
 189 VIII|        describe the amazement which bewildered them, the lamentations they
 190 XIV |            are good, as the apostle bids us (Rom. xii. 17), not alone
 191 XIV |            the women, and the women bind themselves in their vows
 192 XI  |            shady trees, the song of birds, the mirror of the fountain,
 193 I   |                  CHAPTER I ~ OF THE BIRTHPLACE OF PIERRE ABELARD AND OF
 194 XIII|             lesser Brittany, in the bishopric of Vannes, a certain abbey
 195 X   |             Troyes, and there, on a bit of land which had been given
 196 VI  |       boundless grief, and bitterly blaming myself for the suffering
 197 IX  |   intimidating me, and, after a few bland words, said that he was
 198 VIII|        scorn, every tongue speak my blistering shame, and when I should
 199 II  |            he had deserted, from my blockade. In truth, though, if it
 200 VIII|           brought low, nay, utterly blotted out, so swiftly by an evil
 201 X   |        child would make so absurd a blunder. "Our common faith," he
 202 IV  |           write anything containing blunders—as was likely enough in
 203 VII |             it seemed to him unduly boastful to call himself a wise man."
 204 VI  |           The very sundering of our bodies served but to link our souls
 205 VI  |        should kill me or do me some bodily hurt, he feared greatly
 206 II  |             temperately, I still am bold enough to make: ~"if fain
 207 XIV |             there must be no carnal bond between them." ~ Certainly
 208 VI  |            unite with myself in the bonds of love, and indeed the
 209 XV  |           from my horse, breaking a bone in my neck, the injury causing
 210 XIII|          the sufferings which I had borne so constantly. ~ The land
 211 I   |           might win learning in the bosom of Minerva. And—since I
 212 VI  |          the book than each other's bosoms—love drew our eyes together
 213 X   |           Symbol, a thing which any boy might do as well as I. And
 214 XI  |             of the field and coarse bread; their soft beds they exchanged
 215 XV  |           for I fell from my horse, breaking a bone in my neck, the injury
 216 XI  |             and in despair, and had breathed into my soul something of
 217 II  |         because of my youth and the brief duration of my studies. ~
 218 XI  |            we have but given it new brightness. Lo, in the cities scholars
 219 VII |           room in my lodgings, they broke in with the help of one
 220 VIII|          that which hath its stones bruised, or crushed, or broken,
 221 III |         text. When word of this was bruited about, those who had stayed
 222 XI  |           they greatly improved it, building it of stone and wood. Although
 223 XI  |            paid for the erection of buildings, in order that material
 224 VI  |            my studies, and likewise burdened me with an expense far greater
 225 IX  |             any further inquiry, to burn it forthwith in the sight
 226 VI  |            what a tempest of misery burst over her by reason of my
 227 X   |         count on certain matters of business. As soon as I had learned
 228 XV  |      vagabond, even as the accursed Cain (Gen. iv. 14). I have already
 229 VII |           to him unduly boastful to call himself a wise man." In
 230 VII |             Antiquities (xviii. 2), calling them the Pharisees, the
 231 XIV |        suspicion. And what would my calumniators have said if they had but
 232 II  |             by launching the vilest calumnies against him who had yielded
 233 II  |        rival of mine, I pitched the camp, as it were, of my school
 234 XIV |         great authority under Queen Candace who had charge of all her
 235 IX  |            you are disposed to take canonical action against him, his
 236 VII |          fled, but two of them were captured and suffered the loss of
 237 X   |             his joy at my coming he cared for me with all diligence.
 238 IX  |        determine, on the basis of a careful investigation, what ought
 239 VI  |            lecturing became utterly careless and lukewarm; I did nothing
 240 VI  |           if I failed to do so with caresses? There were, however, two
 241 IV  |           impudence to forbid me to carry on any further in his school
 242 V   |            birth to an occasion for casting me lightly down from the
 243 XI  |             leaving their towns and castles to dwell in the wilderness.
 244 VI  |            and Venus when they were caught together.   It was not long
 245 II  |              as I have said, he had caused my place to be occupied
 246 XV  |         bone in my neck, the injury causing me greater pain and weakness
 247 VII |       thereafter might be made more cautious by his example. Jerome thus
 248 V   |            the whole world, and had ceased to fear any further disturbance
 249 IX  |            Then the legate arose to celebrate mass before entering the
 250 XIII|          suitable provision for the celebration there of the divine office,
 251 XIII|          shutting herself up in her cell to devote herself to sacred
 252 XV  |          few others apart in little cells. If the monks knew beforehand
 253 X   |         heard the story vehement in censuring it, so that those who had
 254 XIV |           brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?' (I Cor. ix. 5). Observe,
 255 XI  |              and accordingly in the ceremonies of the mass the prayers
 256 XV  |           to destroy me in the very ceremony of the altar by putting
 257 VII |            strength of the marriage chain would not constrain us.
 258 VII |          Remember that Socrates was chained to a wife, and by what a
 259 II  |            succeeded to my master's chair in the Paris school offered
 260 XV  |            by putting poison in the chalice. One day, when I had gone
 261 III |           Ezekiel. ~ I accepted the challenge, and invited them to attend
 262 X   |         lands of Count Theobald (of Champagne). He himself had some slight
 263 IX  |         legate, and succeeded in so changing his opinion that finally
 264 VI  |      preoccupation, nay, rather the chaos, of my mind, it is hard
 265 XIV |            them when they preached (Chap. 4). "Faithful women," he
 266 IX  |       learned something of the real character of my teaching, they began
 267 VIII|      absence to bring two principal charges against me: first, that
 268 XIV |             the thing which sincere charity induced me to do was seized
 269 XI  |             of the stream, the many charms for eye and ear, fearing
 270 VII |             duties, to prevent this Charybdis from sucking you down headlong,
 271 V   |           all else in the beauty of chastity. ~ Thus did it come to pass
 272 VI  |         shame in those whom we most cherish, nor can there be the blot
 273 X   |             not believe that even a child would make so absurd a blunder. "
 274 XIII|             this abbey the elective choice of the brethren called me,
 275 X   |          any solitary place I might choose, provided only I did not
 276 III |            the proof." And they all chose that most obscure prophecy
 277 XII |         ready to leave the world of Christendom and go forth among the heathen,
 278 XI  |            may perchance argue that churches are not built or altars
 279 XIV |              and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna,
 280 XV  |            result of worldly power (Cicer. 5, Tusc.) Thus did I too
 281 XI  |        delights in the games of the circus, in the contests of athletes,
 282 XI  |            soul. The metropolis and citadel of the mind cannot be taken
 283 XI  |          were, been driven into the citadels of our minds through these
 284 IX  |      neither my explanations nor my citations of authority would avail
 285 XII |        order; the other (Bernard of Clairvaux) made it his boast that
 286 XV  |           own conscience and of the clear evidence of his guilt. ~
 287 XV  |          Prov. xii. 21). By this he clearly shows that whosoever grows
 288 IX  |            exceedingly popular, its clearness appealing particularly to
 289 VI  |        served but to link our souls closer together; the plentitude
 290 XV  |       brother in Christ and comrade closest to me in the intimacy of
 291 XI  |          the herbs of the field and coarse bread; their soft beds they
 292 XV  |     excommunication as my weapon to coerce the untamed rebelliousness
 293 II  |             master to the city, the combats in disputation which my
 294 VI  |             advantages of youth and comeliness, that no matter what woman
 295 XV  |      learned what kind of happiness comes as the result of worldly
 296 XI  |           he shall give you another comforter" (Greek "another Paraclete,"
 297 XI  |             God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation" (
 298 XIV |       famous scholar to have highly commended what he thus saw, saying
 299 X   |             passage of Bede, in his commentary on the Acts of the Apostles,
 300 XV  |          God hath despised them." ~ Commenting on this, St. Jerome, whose
 301 VII |        monks who imitate either the communal life of the Apostles or
 302 XIII|        there, and of whom my former companion had become the prioress.
 303 XIV |             apostles as inseparable companions, even accompanying them
 304 XI  |            Pythagoreans shunned all companionship of this kind, and were wont
 305 XII |           impiety. Though I seem to compare a flea with a lion, or an
 306 XIII|            grew still deeper when I compared the evils I had left behind
 307 X   |     examination or debate, did they compel me with my own hand to cast
 308 XI  |          pictures of past raptures, compelling the soul to dwell fondly
 309 XI  |           place. Secretly my rivals complained and lamented one to another,
 310 XIV |        began to censure me roundly, complaining that I paid far less attention
 311 XIV |         Many times I thought of the complaint of St. Jerome in his letter
 312 II  |              When all this had been completed, I returned to France, above
 313 V   |             work there, I set about completing the glosses on Ezekiel which
 314 IX  |             difficult of all, their complexity is taken as the measure
 315 IX  |            he sought to teach could comprehend. Our Lord Himself maintained
 316 IX  |            who was now acting under compulsion, would after his departure
 317 VII |         thus striving our utmost to conceal what we had done. But her
 318 II  |          Now, the basis of this old concept of his regarding the reality
 319 VII |        should ever have a wife, and concluding his reasons for this philosophic
 320 VII |   honourable wedlock. What possible concord could there be between scholars
 321 XIII|           supported himself and his concubines, as well as his sons and
 322 IX  |      sentence, whereby he agreed to condemn my book without any further
 323 X   |          ought to give judgment, he condemns himself out of his own mouth.
 324 VII |            me observe what were the conditions of honourable wedlock. What
 325 II  |        greater was the authority it conferred upon me. Even so held the
 326 VIII| congregation of the Lord." ~ I must confess that in my misery it was
 327 IX  |            is found guilty or if he confesses his error, his lips can
 328 II  |         came about that, still more confident in myself, I moved my school
 329 IX  |            the sight of all, and to confine me for a year in another
 330 IX  |           me to have no fear of the confinement in a monastery, knowing
 331 XIII|             II promulgated a decree confirming my gift in perpetuity to
 332 XV  |           pleasing to men have been confounded, for that God hath despised
 333 VII |            quiet them, or the noisy confusion of family life? Who can
 334 VIII|            shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord." ~ I must confess
 335 XV  |      arranged to poison me with the connivance of one of my attendants
 336 IX  |        could secure the approval of Conon, Bishop of Praeneste, at
 337 IX  |            last proposal the legate consented, as did all the others. ~
 338 VII |              Then, turning from the consideration of such hindrances to the
 339 VII |            marriage chain would not constrain us. Even if we should by
 340 II  |          tell with what envy he was consumed or with what pain he was
 341 III |         interpreted it as a mark of contempt for so illustrious a teacher.
 342 III |             of words, but they were contemptible in meaning and quite void
 343 XI  |         games of the circus, in the contests of athletes, in the versatility
 344 VII |            life? Who can endure the continual untidiness of children?
 345 VIII|    prohibited, and to this end they continually stirred up bishops, archbishops,
 346 XV  |      against me more perilously and continuously than that of my open enemies,
 347 X   |         this testimony of Bede's in contradiction of our own tradition, I
 348 VI  |            I overwhelmed, with what contrition smitten because of the blow
 349 XI  |          and the market place, from controversies and the crowded ways of
 350 XII |         whensoever I learned of the convening of a new assemblage of the
 351 XIV |         with our own eyes, founding convents for women and making provision
 352 II  |             of worldly fame, he was converted to the monastic life. ~
 353 X   |       Thereupon, as if I had been a convicted criminal, I was handed over
 354 VII |            found that she could not convince me or dissuade me from my
 355 VII |            heard of this, they were convinced that now I had completely
 356 VII |         demonstrating with the most convincing arguments that no wise man
 357 IX  |              and that there a large convocation of learned men should determine,
 358 X   |          words by heart, they had a copy of it set before me to read.
 359 X   |       bishop, not of Athens, but of Corinth. Now, this was directly
 360 XI  |            his first epistle to the Corinthians: "But he that is joined
 361 VIII|             replied in the words of Cornelia: ~"O husband most noble~
 362 IX  |         created thing, spiritual or corporeal. For there is nothing that
 363 IX  |         faith, I was quite ready to correct it or otherwise to make
 364 X   |        instruction of faith and the correction of error, and yet, when
 365 VIII|           all the other schools was correspondingly diminished. Thus I aroused
 366 X   |        presence of the king and his councellors. Forthwith I sought out
 367 XII |             be dragged before their councils or assemblies as a heretic
 368 IX  |         prove a blessing to me, and counseled me to have no fear of the
 369 IX  |       himself, in order to keep his countenance, said: "Certainly, I understand
 370 X   |              Now, this was directly counter to the belief of the monks,
 371 XI  |             pleasant gardens of the countryside, with their well watered
 372 VIII|            my students in these two courses began to increase greatly,
 373 XIV |         bade her ever wear her head covered (ib. 5). For this reason
 374 IV  |        transpired, yonder venerable coward had the impudence to forbid
 375 XV  |         have toiled almost from the cradle. For so, as I said in the
 376 VII |      domestics, between authors and cradles, between books or tablets
 377 XV  |           incessantly to endure the crafty machinations as well as
 378 VI  |      opportunities that our passion craved. Our speech was more of
 379 IX  |           God, neither is it in any created thing, spiritual or corporeal.
 380 IX  |             openly displayed always creates rivals, and the lightning
 381 XIV |           at the customs which have crept into monasteries whereby,
 382 XI  |           altar is that of the Holy Cross, or of the Sepulchre, or
 383 XI  |          from controversies and the crowded ways of men. And so, as
 384 II  |         would learn now~How victory crowned the battle, by him was~I
 385 X   |        which I believed. ~ The very cruelty and heartlessness of my
 386 X   |            having found a chance to crush me, for the greater vileness
 387 XI  |         likewise took charge of the cultivation of the fields and paid for
 388 IX  |             tried in another way to curb their hatred, saying that
 389 XV  |            seek such power might be curbed by my example. ~ And now,
 390 V   |       sensuality, divine grace, the cure for both diseases, was forced
 391 III |             fig tree which Our Lord cursed (Matthew xxi. 19; Mark xi.
 392 VII |            so shining a light! What curses would follow such a loss
 393 X   |            I offer to submit to the customary discipline if I had in any
 394 XIV |             I marvel greatly at the customs which have crept into monasteries
 395 XI  |         themselves huts; instead of dainty fare they lived on the herbs
 396 XIII|           my ability, I saw that my damnation was assured. Moreover, a
 397 XIV |      regarding Esther and the other damsels of King Ahasuerus (Esther
 398 XV  |    struggling in the midst of these dangers, it chanced one day that
 399 III |            said, or whether I would dare to undertake it. I answered
 400 XIII|            sword that threatens him dashes headlong over a precipice,
 401 XIII|             as well as his sons and daughters. They took delight in harassing
 402 XIV |   permissible for a bishop, priest, deacon or subdeacon to cast off
 403 XIV |            the example of the seven deacons whom the apostles sent before
 404 VI  |             still wrote poems, they dealt with love, not with the
 405 VI  |             feared greatly lest his dear-loved niece should be made to
 406 X   |      without further examination or debate, did they compel me with
 407 II  |           and now and then in these debates I was adjudged victor. Now
 408 I   |         through many provinces, and debating as I went, going whithersoever
 409 VI  |             thing so manifest could deceive only a few, no one, methinks,
 410 VI  |         through the baseness of the deception I had practiced, I went
 411 XIV |             says: "We unequivocally declare that it is not permissible
 412 XI  |        however, with the thought of dedicating my oratory to one Person
 413 IX  |         testimony as to his earlier deeds. If, then, you are disposed
 414 II  |    themselves about his conversion, deeming that he had by no means
 415 XII |         Often, God knows, I sank so deep in despair that I was ready
 416 XIII|               My despair grew still deeper when I compared the evils
 417 II  |         saying rather: "This is the deepest of all problems of its kind."
 418 II  |             he might be deemed more deeply religious, and so might
 419 IX  |             he will have no lack of defenders. Remember above all that
 420 XI  |            virtue should thereby be defiled. For it is perilous to turn
 421 VII |  philosophical sects which Josephus defines in his Book of Antiquities (
 422 VI  |          house, sending her without delay to my own country. She remained
 423 IX  |           legate and the archbishop deliberated with my rivals and sundry
 424 VII |          study of philosophy in its demands upon him. ~ Then, turning
 425 IX  |      explanations, I am prepared to demonstrate that, according to Augustine'
 426 VII |       disturbances of married life, demonstrating with the most convincing
 427 XI  |          those things which reality denies to it. ~ "Heeding such counsel,
 428 X   |       particularly gloried, by thus denying that the Areopagite was
 429 XV  |          that they would thereafter depart from the abbey and no longer
 430 XIV |           has freed me therefrom by depriving me of all power to enact
 431 XI  |              so did the Holy Spirit descend upon the disciples, and
 432 VIII|    impossible, for words of mine to describe the amazement which bewildered
 433 XI  |             the monk Rusticus as if describing the monks of those ancient
 434 XIII|             that above all others I deserved the reproach, "This man
 435 XIV |          nearly every one deemed me deserving of the highest honours of
 436 VI  |           it seemed to us ever more desirable. And so it chanced with
 437 IX  |             blessed Nicodemus, who, desiring to free Our Lord Himself,
 438 VI  |            and likewise he was most desirous for his niece that her study
 439 X   |            censure him, bidding him desist from such treasonable talk,
 440 XIII|             thrust myself into sure desolation; seeking to shun threats
 441 II  |         long thereafter, apparently despairing further of worldly fame,
 442 X   |            that overwhelmed me, the desperation that wracked my mind, all
 443 V   |             which formerly had been destined for me, nay, even offered
 444 XIII|             and for a time of utter destitution. But the place proved itself
 445 VII |     Theophrastus set forth in great detail the intolerable annoyances
 446 VIII|            friends sought vainly to deter her from submitting her
 447 IX  |   convocation of learned men should determine, on the basis of a careful
 448 VIII|       result was that I made myself detested of them all. They gladly
 449 XIV |             by the wickedness of my detractors as the subject of shameless
 450 IX  |            enemies are our judges" (Deut. xxxii. 31). ~ These three,
 451 VIII|             broken, or cut." And in Deuteronomy (xxiii. 1), "He that is
 452 XV  |             of the followers of the devil: "If they have persecuted
 453 XIII|         mercy, which they served so devotedly, soon brought them consolation,
 454 VII |         indeed, precisely speak of "devoting himself," but he does add
 455 I   |             became the ardour of my devotion to them, until in truth
 456 XV  |            lion seeking what he may devour, and do you still think
 457 IX  |      hearing in accordance with the dictates of the law. When the bishop
 458 II  |            grew dim and was like to die out altogether. Thus it
 459 XI  |            Holy Spirit, without any difference in their possession thereof,
 460 II  |         there could be no essential differences among these individuals,
 461 XIV |       Conscience and reputation are different matters: conscience is for
 462 XI  |          had not strength enough to dig, and shame kept me from
 463 VIII|           abbots and whatever other dignitaries of the Church they could
 464 III |       offsetting my inexperience by diligent toil. To this I replied
 465 II  |          very teacher himself, grew dim and was like to die out
 466 VIII|         schools was correspondingly diminished. Thus I aroused the envy
 467 IX  |           held outside of their own diocese, and in a place where they
 468 XI  |      although he was a rich man let Diogenes trample on his couch with
 469 X   |           of Corinth. Now, this was directly counter to the belief of
 470 VII |             however, most violently disapproved of this, and for two chief
 471 XI  |             Spirit descend upon the disciples, and thus does It claim
 472 VI  |            be taught but even to be disciplined, what had he done save to
 473 X   |          therein were soon eager to disclaim all responsibility, shouldering
 474 VI  |             slow a matter may be in disclosing itself, it is sure to come
 475 VI  |         than a reciter of my former discoveries, and though I still wrote
 476 III |             long before I made this discovery, and stretched myself lazily
 477 IX  |         council convened I publicly discussed the Catholic faith in the
 478 III |        hitherto so inexperienced in discussing the Scriptures, should attempt
 479 IX  |         hatred, saying that for the discussion of such an important case
 480 XI  |            and constant presence of disease, and that his followers
 481 V   |            grace, the cure for both diseases, was forced upon me, even
 482 XII |          regard for me were fain to disguise it in every possible way
 483 XIII|           advantage of the state of disorder within the monastery to
 484 XIII|         equally savage, lawless and disorganized, there was not a single
 485 XV  |           happened to him by divine dispensation. Even such are those who
 486 XIII|     prioress. The exiles being thus dispersed in various places, I perceived
 487 X   |           omnipotent. And whosoever dissents from this is openly in error,
 488 X   |             council was immediately dissolved. ~ The abbot and the monks
 489 VII |            could not convince me or dissuade me from my folly by these
 490 VII |        between books or tablets and distaffs, between the stylus or the
 491 VII |            City of God," wherein he distinguishes between the various schools
 492 V   |          ceased to fear any further disturbance of my peace, began to loosen
 493 VII |          annoyances and the endless disturbances of married life, demonstrating
 494 II  |   manifested itself in them through diverse ways. This problem of universals
 495 V   |  philosophers and the spirit of the divines in the uncleanness of my
 496 VII |          asked by Hircius after his divorce of Terentia whether he would
 497 VII |            their disgrace, began to divulge the story of our marriage,
 498 II  |           most bitterly attacked my doctrines, now flocked to my school.
 499 IX  |           hear him and know what he doeth? (John, vii. 51). ~ When
 500 VII |             be between scholars and domestics, between authors and cradles,