Chapter

1001 VI  |             girl named Heloise, the neice of a canon who was called
1002 XIV |       yourself, reputation for your neighbour." Methinks the spite of
1003 VIII|           students flocked that the neighbourhood could not afford shelter
1004 VI  |           and our wives, though our neighbours sing them aloud." But no
1005 XV  |      slander, says in his letter to Nepotanius: "The apostle says: 'If
1006 VI  |           very burdensome, since my nights were vigils of love and
1007 XIV |           Luke viii. 1-3) ~ Leo the Ninth, furthermore, in his reply
1008 XV  |           with the aid of a certain nobleman of the district, for they
1009 VI  |        women had cast down even the noblest men to utter ruin. And in
1010 VII |            morning, having kept our nocturnal vigil of prayer unknown
1011 VII |       seeking to quiet them, or the noisy confusion of family life?
1012 XII |          great faith. One of these (Norbert of Prémontré) took pride
1013 V   |      philosophy. Thus my school was notably increased in size by reason
1014 XIII|          untameable way of life was notorious almost everywhere. The people
1015 VIII|          clerics sought me in great numbers, endlessly beseeching both
1016 VII |      children, the lullabies of the nurse seeking to quiet them, or
1017 XV  |           many other promises under oath, in the presence of the
1018 XV  |         given and their sacramental oaths, but finally they were compelled
1019 X   |           The abbot went away still obdurate, but a few days thereafter
1020 III |            they all chose that most obscure prophecy of Ezekiel. ~ I
1021 X   |           and in this way I at last obtained what I sought. The royal
1022 IV  |            any one before. The more obvious this rancour became, the
1023 VII |         thus interrupted. All other occupations must be resisted; it is
1024 VII |       because she could not bear to offend me, with grievous sighs
1025 XIII|     celebration there of the divine office, for indeed the extreme
1026 III |       working out my exposition and offsetting my inexperience by diligent
1027 IX  |           has spread as it were the offshoots of his vine from sea to
1028 II  |        study theology, since now my oft-mentioned teacher, William, was active
1029 XI  |            he did in order that the onslaughts of lust might be broken
1030 VI  |       anything I had dared to hope, opening the way for my love; for
1031 XI  |        particularly ascribed to the operation of divine grace, by which
1032 II  |            to refute certain of his opinions, not infrequently attacking
1033 VI  |           held out to us the secret opportunities that our passion craved.
1034 XV  |          accordance with the divine ordering, let every one of true faith
1035 XIV |           superiors or in the lower orders. In many places we may even
1036 V   |        little of the common talk of ordinary people, perverse and subtly
1037 VII |        their eyes and their genital organs. One of these two was the
1038 VII |       learning, as we find from the origin of the word itself, and
1039 VII |             Samos, who, it is said, originated the very word 'philosophy'.
1040     | otherwise
1041 II  |           proclaims itself, and its outcome reveals the truth regarding
1042 VIII|        intolerable lamentations and outcries, so that I suffered more
1043 XIV |            the subject of shameless outcry. They declared that I, who
1044 VI  |           before us; our kisses far outnumbered our reasoned words. Our
1045 VIII|            the tale of this amazing outrage would spread to the very
1046 VIII|             in my misery it was the overwhelming sense of my disgrace rather
1047 VI  |             sealing with kisses the pact which I had sought of him—
1048 XI  |             does the sense of touch paint for itself the pictures
1049 VII |             this, because they have palaces or houses containing many
1050 I   |            in its own tongue called Palets. Such is the nature of that
1051 IX  |             Praeneste, at that time papal legate in France. Their
1052 I   |           PIERRE ABELARD AND OF HIS PARENTS ~KNOW, then, that I am come
1053 II  |     WITHDRAWAL FROM THE CITY OF THE PARISIANS TO MELUN, AND HIS RETURN
1054 XIV |          his reply to the letter of Parmenianus concerning monastic zeal
1055 X   |             They had, indeed, taken particular pride in the fact that,
1056 VI  |    unquenched. ~ In measure as this passionate rapture absorbed me more
1057 XI  |          for itself the pictures of past raptures, compelling the
1058 VIII|           ends of the earth. ~ What path lay open to me thereafter?
1059 XIII|       sweetness of her incomparable patience in all things. The less
1060 XI  |     sacrifices and prayers to their patrons. ~ Some, however, may perchance
1061 XIV |          holy apostles act, for St. Paul says: 'Have we not power
1062 IX  |              then, took my book and pawed it over and examined it
1063 VIII|       sorrow,~The price I so gladly pay."~(Lucan, "Pharsalia," viii.
1064 XII |            forth among the heathen, paying them a stipulated tribute
1065 VI  |            school—in return for the payment of a small sum. My pretext
1066 V   |           there for several years I peacefully directed the school which
1067 VII |           between the stylus or the pen and the spindle? What man,
1068 VII |         herself along with me. What penalties, she said, would the world
1069 XI  |            its special feast of the Pentecost, even as the Son has had
1070 IX  |       finally taken. But my rivals, perceiving that they would accomplish
1071 III |             who asked him questions perforce held him as nought. He had
1072     | perhaps
1073 XI  |       thereby be defiled. For it is perilous to turn your eyes often
1074 XV  |          sons rages against me more perilously and continuously than that
1075 I   |           became such an one as the Peripatetics. ~ ~~
1076 XV  |           the great goodness of God permits nothing to be done without
1077 XIV |      believe that the apostles thus permitted saintly women to go about
1078 XIII|        decree confirming my gift in perpetuity to them and their successors.
1079 XIII|        could fail to understand how persistently that undisciplined body
1080 VIII|          had gifted me with no less persuasiveness in expounding the Scriptures
1081 XIII|             afflicted with so great perturbation to of the spirit, and when
1082 V   |            talk of ordinary people, perverse and subtly flattering chance
1083 XI  |            St. Michael, or John, or Peter, or of any other saint,
1084 XIV |             them." ~ Certainly that Pharisee who spoke within himself
1085 VII |         xviii. 2), calling them the Pharisees, the Sadducees and the Essenes.
1086 XIV |             and baptism the apostle Philip was directed by an angel (
1087 VII |     concluding his reasons for this philosophic exhortation with these words: "
1088 III |               we agree to the test. Pick out and give us an exposition
1089 XI  |          touch paint for itself the pictures of past raptures, compelling
1090 I   |            I ~ OF THE BIRTHPLACE OF PIERRE ABELARD AND OF HIS PARENTS ~
1091 XI  |       rushes, and their tables were piles of turf. in very truth you
1092 II  |      occupied by a rival of mine, I pitched the camp, as it were, of
1093 XIV |         whereby, even as abbots are placed in charge of the men, abbesses
1094 XV  |             Thy will be done," thus placing their own will ahead of
1095 II  |             nought the school I had planned and the place I had chosen
1096 XV  |             district, for they were planning, not to poison me indeed,
1097 XI  |             and desert places. Nay, Plato himself, although he was
1098 VII |           that now I had completely played them false and had rid myself
1099 XI  |          ways of the cities and the pleasant gardens of the countryside,
1100 VII |          and thereby to violate the pledge they had given me on this
1101 XV  |         openly did they violate the pledges they had given and their
1102 VI  |          souls closer together; the plentitude of the love which was denied
1103 VIII|            nay, even beasts in such plight were not acceptable as sacrifices.
1104 XV  |             danger with which their plots threatened me, even to the
1105 XIII|           the brethren were forever plotting against me, so that it seemed
1106 III |           to this tree that I might pluck the fruit thereof, I discovered
1107 VII |            save yourself from being plunged shamelessly and irrevocably
1108 VI  |            and though I still wrote poems, they dealt with love, not
1109 VI  |             in the stories that the poets tell, it once happened with
1110 I   |          leaving to my brothers the pomp of glory in arms, the right
1111 III |          oak to which Lucan likened Pompey, saying: ~"he stands, the
1112 XIV |             report alike." ~ When I pondered over the injury which slander
1113 XIII|             bishop of the district, Pope Innocent II promulgated
1114 IX  |           and it became exceedingly popular, its clearness appealing
1115 II  |           degree, indeed, that even Porphyry, writing in his "Isagoge"
1116 XII |        Prémontré) took pride in his position as canon of a regular order;
1117 III |      established custom than of the potency of his own talent or intellect.
1118 II  |             I compelled him by most potent reasoning first to alter
1119 XI  |            and the cities, lived on pottage and the herbs of the field" (
1120 XIII|            lord who was exceedingly powerful in that region had some
1121 XII |            they themselves were now powerless to do me hurt, stirred up
1122 IX  |        approval of Conon, Bishop of Praeneste, at that time papal legate
1123 XIV |           whole city was loud in my praise, and nearly every one deemed
1124 III |             it that they spread its praises abroad with notable enthusiasm,
1125 VII |         kept our nocturnal vigil of prayer unknown to all in a certain
1126 IX  |           was absurd for any one to preach to others a thing which
1127 XV  |      believing that I would take no precautions to escape such a plot. But
1128 XIII|          him dashes headlong over a precipice, and to shun one death for
1129 VII |            Cicero does not, indeed, precisely speak of "devoting himself,"
1130 X   |            had vainly sought of his predecessor. At first he would not give
1131 VII |        canon, to do in order not to prefer base voluptuousness to your
1132 I   |          prizes of victory in war I preferred the battle of minds in disputation.
1133 VI  |          Heloise found that she was pregnant, and of this she wrote to
1134 II  |            to a loftier rank in the prelacy, a thing which, in truth,
1135 XII |            One of these (Norbert of Prémontré) took pride in his position
1136 VI  |             when they perceived the preoccupation, nay, rather the chaos,
1137 IX  |          logical explanations, I am prepared to demonstrate that, according
1138 XIII|             this was an opportunity presented by God himself to me whereby
1139 XIII|             themselves. ~ The monks pressed me to supply them with their
1140 XI  |            is to the Son? Who would presume to erase from above the
1141 II  |            It was given out that I, presuming on my gifts far beyond the
1142 IX  |           more who displayed a like presumption. The legate, however, being
1143 X   |            should allege ignorance, pretending that I did not know the
1144 VII |           to your sacred duties, to prevent this Charybdis from sucking
1145 VI  |         well-known continence of my previous life. Indeed we do not easily
1146 V   |          soul, rendering it an easy prey to carnal temptations. Thus
1147 VIII|          Receive now my sorrow,~The price I so gladly pay."~(Lucan, "
1148 XIV |           permissible for a bishop, priest, deacon or subdeacon to
1149 XIV |           of the highest honours of priesthood. But I know that my way
1150 VIII|             as he was above them in priestly rank. This intolerable state
1151 XIII|            with the approval of the prince of that land, and I easily
1152 VIII|             my absence to bring two principal charges against me: first,
1153 XIII|            to live according to the principles they had themselves professed,
1154 XIII|            companion had become the prioress. The exiles being thus dispersed
1155 X   |          the walls of Provins, in a priory of the monks of Troyes,
1156 II  |           reason of his lectures on Priscian, in which he was considered
1157 X   |            to his monastery as to a prison. And with this the council
1158 VII |           you care nothing for your privileges as a cleric, at least uphold
1159 VIII|             the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not
1160 I   |       weapons for these, and to the prizes of victory in war I preferred
1161 II  |          through diverse ways. This problem of universals is ever the
1162 II  |          This is the deepest of all problems of its kind." Wherefore
1163 XIV |             extent that the apostle proclaimed that the head of the woman
1164 II  |            I to be silent, the fact proclaims itself, and its outcome
1165 VI  |             which he could possibly procure for her. Of no mean beauty,
1166 X   |           fain would have arisen to profess and set forth my faith,
1167 XIII|      principles they had themselves professed, I should not survive. And
1168 V   |             the amount of financial profit as well as glory which it
1169 X   |    increasingly useful and likewise profitable to him, and for this reason
1170 VIII|     teaching of every kind might be prohibited, and to this end they continually
1171 XV  |            I particularly feared to promise me publicly, pledging their
1172 XV  |            give this and many other promises under oath, in the presence
1173 VI  |            entreat his forgiveness, promising to make any amends that
1174 XIII|          district, Pope Innocent II promulgated a decree confirming my gift
1175 II  |           dared not attempt a final pronouncement thereon, saying rather: "
1176 III |          this boast of yours to the proof." And they all chose that
1177 XIII|       necessities, but they held no property in common which I might
1178 IX  |            to be done. To this last proposal the legate consented, as
1179 IX  |             win their assent to his proposals, he tried in another way
1180 XIII|             So that, methinks, they prospered more through gifts in a
1181 V   |           the matter talked of. But prosperity always puffs up the foolish
1182 V   |          abhorrence the foulness of prostitutes, because I had diligently
1183 VII |           no thought of expense and protects them from daily worries.
1184 IX  |        heard this they cried out in protest, saying: "This is wise counsel,
1185 V   |             one who, having been so proud, was brought to such shame,
1186 XV  |            mind when he said in his Proverbs: "There shall no evil happen
1187 XIV |          book on the duty of monks, proves that women followed our
1188 XV  |             such a plot. But divine providence so ordered matters that
1189 XIV |          duty, so that he no longer provides her with food and clothing;
1190 II  |          turn homeward to my native province, and thus for some years
1191 I   |             journeying through many provinces, and debating as I went,
1192 XV  |              Galat. i. 10). And the Psalmist says: "They who have been
1193 V   |            Apostle said: "Knowledge puffeth itself up" (I Cor. viii.
1194 V   |           of. But prosperity always puffs up the foolish and worldly
1195 VI  |             day or by night, and to punish her sternly if ever I should
1196 VII |         visited her repeatedly with punishments. No sooner had I learned
1197 II  |            him himself and with his pupils, and the successes which
1198 XIV |       considering the matter from a purely human standpoint, than my
1199 XV  |            least they serve for the purifying of our souls. And since
1200 VII |          fellows in faith or in the purity of their lives, and who
1201 II  |            the more openly his envy pursued me, the greater was the
1202 VII |           says, "had as its founder Pythagoras of Samos, who, it is said,
1203 XI  |             to do without. Thus the Pythagoreans shunned all companionship
1204 VI  |     carefully considering all those qualities which are wont to attract
1205 XIV |            of great authority under Queen Candace who had charge of
1206 IX  |           opportunity to answer his questioners. In that case if he is found
1207 XII |             order that I might live quietly a Christian life among the
1208 XI  |             ways of men. And so, as Quintilian says, did envy seek me out
1209 X   |             ground, and said, as if quoting the words of Daniel: " '
1210 XV  |   persecution carried on by my sons rages against me more perilously
1211 XI  |             the glitter of gems and raiment, or in aught else like to
1212 II  |            fellow students who were ranked foremost, seemed all the
1213 VI  |          measure as this passionate rapture absorbed me more and more,
1214 XI  |         itself the pictures of past raptures, compelling the soul to
1215 VI  |         letters. Now this virtue is rare among women, and for that
1216 VII |          did we see each other save rarely and in private, thus striving
1217 VII |            sweeter by reason of its rarity. But when she found that
1218 XV  |          peril, I might be deemed a rash tempter of God rather than
1219 XIV |       judged that he had acted most rashly and had exposed himself
1220 XV  |    tribulation as nought, or at any rate as little, in comparison
1221 IX  |             were always seeking for rational and philosophical explanations,
1222 VI  |        tender lamb to the care of a ravenous wolf. When he had thus given
1223 IX  |          our erstwhile teachers, we're dead, were greedy to reign
1224 VIII|            of the Church they could reach. ~ ~~
1225 IX  |           violence would in the end react upon them and prove a blessing
1226 X   |            day, in the course of my reading, I came upon a certain passage
1227 VII |            for no amount of time is really sufficient hereto" (Epist.
1228 XIV |           vii. 39), might much more reasonably have suspected baseness
1229 VI  |          kisses far outnumbered our reasoned words. Our hands sought
1230 XV  |        weapon to coerce the untamed rebelliousness of the monks, I forced certain
1231 VIII|          Only to bring thee to woe? Receive now my sorrow,~The price
1232 XI  |        rightly the altar of Him who receives than of Him who makes the
1233     | recently
1234 X   |      needful for me to do more than recite the Athanasian Symbol, a
1235 VI  |          become nothing more than a reciter of my former discoveries,
1236 XV  |           so do we read of him who, reckoning the power and heaped-up
1237 XV  |          rich." ~ Inspired by those records and examples, we should
1238 VIII|             my part, scarcely had I recovered from my wound when clerics
1239 V   |          even divine goodness could redeem one who, having been so
1240 IV  |         rancour became, the more it redounded to my honour, and his persecution
1241 IX  |           against me, they were all reduced to silence, or at the most
1242 X   |          the district, I built with reeds and stalks my first oratory
1243 IX  |           The legate directed me to refer my book to the archbishop
1244 XI  |     teaching seemed to my rivals to reflect new glory on me, and to
1245 XV  |          WRITING OF THIS HIS LETTER~REFLECTING often upon all these things,
1246 XIV |           Why, finally, do such men refrain from slandering the holy
1247 X   |       another. For this reason they refused to listen either to my own
1248 II  |              because I undertook to refute certain of his opinions,
1249 XI  |             reasoning holds good as regards the Trinity itself, it does
1250 IX  |             re dead, were greedy to reign in their stead, and, so
1251 II  |             his master and mine had reigned. And when, in so short a
1252 V   |          peace, began to loosen the rein on my desires, although
1253 II  |           students as he could, and reinstating his brotherhood in their
1254 VII |         humiliation! She vehemently rejected this marriage, which she
1255 VI  |             with my love, I dreaded rejection of none. Then, too, I believed
1256 X   |           their story with delight, rejoicing at having found a chance
1257 IX  |           than he should have been, relied chiefly on the advice of
1258 VII |         from its perils rather than reluctantly giving them up, and denied
1259 II  |             great ones of the land, relying on their aid I won to the
1260 II  |          loftiest summits." (Ovid: "Remedy for Love," I, 369.) ~ Not
1261 VIII|            I was overwhelmed by the remembrance that, according to the dread
1262 VII |             the disgrace to me, she reminded me of the hardships of married
1263 IX  |       report, as that same wise man reminds us, is easily crushed, and
1264 XI  |  established his academy in a place remote from the city, and not only
1265 II  | foreknowledge of this, and tried to remove my school as far as possible
1266 X   |       insisted, had by his writings removed all possible doubt on the
1267 XIV |        happened to me so completely removes all suspicion of this iniquity
1268 V   |         comfort enervates the soul, rendering it an easy prey to carnal
1269 VII |          study. For this reason the renowned philosophers of old utterly
1270 II  |             needful for me again to repair to my old home, by reason
1271 VII |            HER HIS WIFE~FORTHWITH I repaired to my own country, and brought
1272 IX  |             Rheims, they managed by repeated hints to stir up their archbishop,
1273 VII |           fury thereby, visited her repeatedly with punishments. No sooner
1274 X   |         French had acted. Swayed by repentance for his injustice, and feeling
1275 XII |         spread abroad such sinister reports of my faith as well as of
1276 VII |            in order that they might repose in the embraces of philosophy
1277 XIII|           all others I deserved the reproach, "This man began to build,
1278 VII |             withstanding a storm of reproaches which Xantippe was hurling
1279 IX  |           if I had written anything repugnant to the Catholic faith, I
1280 XIV |           but for our own sakes our reputations ought not to be tarnished,
1281 X   |         easily bring them into evil repute, and certainly could do
1282 IX  |        enough, and that this matter required a more thorough examination.
1283 VII |        tears she made an end of her resistance, saying: "Then there is
1284 VII |           other occupations must be resisted; it is vain to seek to adjust
1285 IX  |          with rage, and straightway resorted to threats, asserting that
1286 XI  |            me from begging. And so, resorting once more to the art with
1287 XIII|             and each one, with such resources as he possessed, supported
1288 XIV |            sacred doctrine. In this respect, I thought, God's mercy
1289 XI  |          into this false accusation resulted from their failure to perceive
1290 XII |             me, and those who still retained something of their former
1291 XI  |          had scholars learned of my retreat than they began to flock
1292 XIII|             for my oratory. And so, returning thither, I bade her come
1293 III |        examined it more closely was revealed its barrenness. When, therefore,
1294 II  |             itself, and its outcome reveals the truth regarding it. ~
1295 XII |          whole world, till its echo reverberated mightily—echo, that fancy
1296 II  |         that when William had first revised and then finally abandoned
1297 XII |            it his boast that he bad revived the true monastic life.
1298 II  |          was eager to learn more of rhetoric from his lips; and in the
1299 XI  |         claim Its special religious rites. Nay, it seems more fitting
1300 XV  |         bandits to waylay me on the road and kill me. And while I
1301 XIII|            there, amid the dreadful roar of the waves of the sea,
1302 XV  |           adversary goes about as a roaring lion seeking what he may
1303 VII |         demand of her if she should rob it of so shining a light!
1304 X   |          eyes of the whole kingdom, robbing it of the honour in which
1305 IX  |           stir up their archbishop, Rodolphe, against me, for the purpose
1306 IX  |          the approval either of the Roman pontiff or of the church,
1307 XIII|       westward, even as that of the Romans drove Jerome toward the
1308 XV  |         authority of the Pontiff of Rome, Innocent, who sent his
1309 VII | unsuspecting was asleep in a secret room in my lodgings, they broke
1310 VII |           or houses containing many rooms, and because their wealth
1311 XIII|          making all those who dwelt round about feel pity and kindliness
1312 XIV |     thereabouts began to censure me roundly, complaining that I paid
1313 III |         wont to win success, not by routine, but by ability. I added
1314 X   |          crown and the glory of his royalty. And until he should hand
1315 VI  |            the noblest men to utter ruin. And in order to make amends
1316 XIII|      certain abbey of St. Gildas at Ruits, then mourning the death
1317 X   |            not put myself under the rule of any other abbey. This
1318 XI  |         Behold now, the whole world runs after him, and our persecution
1319 XI  |           army of the foe has first rushed in through the gates. If
1320 XI  |            writing thus to the monk Rusticus as if describing the monks
1321 VI  |            Jerome in his epistle to Sabinianus (Epist. 48) says: "We are
1322 XV  |          faith or swearing upon the sacrament, that they would thereafter
1323 XV  |            they had given and their sacramental oaths, but finally they
1324 XI  |        unless either he himself was sacrificed there or else special sacrifices
1325 VII |             them the Pharisees, the Sadducees and the Essenes. In our
1326 XV  |             my own life. When I had safeguarded myself to the best of my
1327 XIV |           suffices, but for our own sakes our reputations ought not
1328 III |             useful in so far as the salvation of the soul was concerned,
1329 VII |           its founder Pythagoras of Samos, who, it is said, originated
1330 X   |         schoolmaster, hearing this, sarcastically added the Athanasian phrase, "
1331 XIV |             rich woman." ~(Juvenal, Sat. VI, v 459) ~  ~
1332 XV  |             weakness. ~ But now has Satan beset me to such an extent
1333 XIV |             things in mind that the satirist said: ~"There is nothing
1334 X   |            he had yielded enough to satisfy their rancour he shortly
1335 XIV |            Elisabeth of the Gospel, saving only that John was not with
1336 VIII|       worldly and in its life quite scandalous. The abbot himself was as
1337 II  |             reasoning that it could scarce be called lecturing on the
1338 XIV |           as criminal in the famous scholar to have highly commended
1339 X   |    omnipotent." A certain Tirric, a schoolmaster, hearing this, sarcastically
1340 III |             as yet studied only the sciences, replied that following
1341 VI  |           he done save to give free scope to my desires, and to offer
1342 X   |             had come to them, as if scorning all other abbeys, and accordingly
1343 III |            lectures on the Books of Scripture. I, who had as yet studied
1344 IX  |              his lips can be wholly sealed. Consider the words of the
1345 VI  |            that of his kindred, and sealing with kisses the pact which
1346 II  |         Melun, at that time a royal seat. My teacher himself had
1347 VIII|           that drove me to seek the seclusion of the monastic cloister.
1348 VI  |             with love, not with the secrets of philosophy. Of these
1349 VII |             the three philosophical sects which Josephus defines in
1350 X   |             on the subject, and had securely established the truth of
1351 VI  |             to marry her whom I had seduced, provided only the thing
1352 XV  |            of Christ.' He no longer seeks to please men, and so is
1353     | seems
1354 XIV |        charity induced me to do was seized upon by the wickedness of
1355 X   |           that he would straightway send me to the king, by him to
1356 VI  |             from her uncle's house, sending her without delay to my
1357 VII |            and the greatest of all, Seneca, in his advice to Lucilius,
1358 X   |            what I sought. The royal seneschal, Stephen, having summoned
1359 XI  |          Jovinianus. ~ "Through the senses," says Jerome, "as through
1360 VII |         forthwith stealthily and by separate ways, nor thereafter did
1361 XI  |           the Holy Cross, or of the Sepulchre, or of St. Michael, or John,
1362 VI  |           of my own household was a serious handicap to my studies,
1363 XIV |             Augustine tells us in a sermon of his on the life and conduct
1364 VII |          with the help of one of my servants whom they had bribed. There
1365 XV  |          our deserts, at least they serve for the purifying of our
1366 IX  |             the council, before the session convened, the legate and
1367 X   |          faith," he said, holds and sets forth that the Three are
1368 XIV |          made only because Paula is setting forth to Jerusalem." And
1369 XIV |        following the example of the seven deacons whom the apostles
1370 XI  |           sacraments, moreover, the seven-fold grace of the Spirit is added,
1371 XI  |          well watered fields, their shady trees, the song of birds,
1372 VII |          with a most cruel and most shameful punishment, such as astounded
1373 VIII|             Who ne'er shouldst have shared my couch! Has fortune such
1374 X   |            me longer, under pain of sharing my excommunication. When
1375 VIII|      neighbourhood could not afford shelter for them, nor the earth
1376 VI  |          first in the dwelling that sheltered our love, and then in the
1377 XIII|           mourning the death of its shepherd. To this abbey the elective
1378 VII |             she should rob it of so shining a light! What curses would
1379 X   |          the monastery might not be shorn of any of the glory which
1380 X   |            satisfy their rancour he shortly freed me from the monastery
1381 X   |        disclaim all responsibility, shouldering the blame on others. Nay,
1382 XIV |          very heavy yoke upon their shoulders. It was with such things
1383 VIII|        husband most noble~Who ne'er shouldst have shared my couch! Has
1384 X   |             of our own tradition, I showed it somewhat jestingly to
1385 VII |             I knew there would be a shower after all that thunder.'" ~
1386 XIV |          and village, preaching and showing the glad tidings of the
1387 X   |       former days known me well and shown me much love. In his joy
1388 XV  |             21). By this he clearly shows that whosoever grows wrathful
1389 II  |          felt to be his wrongs, and shrewdly he attacked me that he might
1390 II  |            monastery wherein he had shut himself up for the sake
1391 XIII|         allowed herself to be seen, shutting herself up in her cell to
1392 XV  |             the count, who was then sick, and while I was sojourning
1393 II  |             was whole again from my sickness, I learned that my teacher,
1394 II  |            Thus I was as one laying siege to him who had taken possession
1395 IX  |            burn it forthwith in the sight of all, and to confine me
1396 XIV |           man (I Cor. i. 3), and in sign thereof he bade her ever
1397 IX  |            they were all reduced to silence, or at the most to maligning
1398 II  |               But even were I to be silent, the fact proclaims itself,
1399 XIV |             preparing me for a task similar to his own. Moreover, it
1400 VI  |        tasks. In all this the man's simplicity was nothing short of astounding
1401 IX  |          other bishops alike in the sincerity of his religion and in the
1402 XII |             They spread abroad such sinister reports of my faith as well
1403 XIV |          toucheth Him: for she is a sinner" (Luke vii. 39), might much
1404 VI  |           and to be ignorant of the sins of our children and our
1405 XIII|         pity and kindliness for the sisterhood. So that, methinks, they
1406 XV  |            make provision for those sisters and to undertake their care
1407 XIV |          any suspicion of lust. The sixth book of the Ecclesiastical
1408 IX  |         legate, however, being less skilled in law than he should have
1409 IX  |            rivals of mine so foully slandered me with both the clergy
1410 XV  |         even as the monks sought to slay St. Benedict! Methinks the
1411 XIV |        sudden, for I was heavy with sleep when they laid hands on
1412 VII |         suddenly drenched with foul slops; wiping his head, he said
1413 VI  |           aloud." But no matter how slow a matter may be in disclosing
1414 I   |             father who had won some smattering of letters before he had
1415 VIII|           Has fortune such power~To smite so lofty a head? Why then
1416 III |            he filled his house with smoke and illumined it not at
1417 XV  |           that the hand of the Lord smote me a heavy blow, for I fell
1418 VIII|  intolerable yoke of monastic life, sobbing and weeping replied in the
1419 VII |             virtuous lives. In what sobriety and continence these men
1420 X   |             enjoyed by reason of my sojourn there, they granted me permission
1421 VII |           of his household, seeking solace for their disgrace, began
1422 I   |         before he had girded on the soldier's belt. And so it came about
1423 II  |             as if he would free his soldiery, whom he had deserted, from
1424 VIII|           should turn to it for the sole love of God. They bade me
1425 XI  |          there is no feast which is solemnized especially for Him. But
1426 X   |          own tradition, I showed it somewhat jestingly to sundry of the
1427     | somewhere
1428 XI  |              their shady trees, the song of birds, the mirror of
1429 VI  |             of philosophy. Of these songs you yourself well know how
1430 For |       stirred, as likewise they are soothed in their sorrows more by
1431 IX  |         whose arguments, or rather, sophistries, the whole world cannot
1432 II  |          number of students, of one sort and another, chiefly by
1433 III |             to devote a much longer space to working out my exposition
1434 XI  |       wilderness. In place of their spacious houses they built themselves
1435 VII |         trouble in the flesh: but I spare you" (I Cor. vii. 27). And
1436 VII |            and swore that they were speaking the most absolute lies.
1437 IX  |            another: "Behold, now he speaks openly, and no one brings
1438 VIII|             I should be a monstrous spectacle to all eyes? I was overwhelmed
1439 VI  |             the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness
1440 VII |           stylus or the pen and the spindle? What man, intent on his
1441 XIV |             had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called
1442 II  |           my studies. ~ Out of this sprang the beginning of my misfortunes,
1443 XII |            hidden away, but my fame spreading throughout the whole world,
1444 For |           the sufferings which have sprung out of my misfortunes, for
1445 XI  |             they may need, and yet, spurning the pleasures of the town,
1446 X   |              I built with reeds and stalks my first oratory in the
1447 XV  |          Even to the present time I stand face to face with this danger,
1448 XIV |          matter from a purely human standpoint, than my enemies could suspect
1449 III |        likened Pompey, saying: ~"he stands, the shade of a name once
1450 IX  |            greedy to reign in their stead, and, so to speak, to succeed
1451 XV  |           persecutions all the more steadfastly the more bitterly they harm
1452 II  |           at me openly, he tried to steal away the school by launching
1453 VII |      present. We departed forthwith stealthily and by separate ways, nor
1454 X   |        sought. The royal seneschal, Stephen, having summoned the abbot
1455 VI  |       bitterness of his shame. What steps to take against me, or what
1456 VI  |            night, and to punish her sternly if ever I should find her
1457 XIV |          the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others,
1458 XII |          the heathen, paying them a stipulated tribute in order that I
1459 IX  |        managed by repeated hints to stir up their archbishop, Rodolphe,
1460 XI  |         improved it, building it of stone and wood. Although this
1461 IX  |             the people came near to stoning me and the few students
1462 XI  |           on themselves. Nor was it strange that they, who had done
1463 XI  |         they exchanged for heaps of straw and rushes, and their tables
1464 XI  |         fountain, the murmur of the stream, the many charms for eye
1465 III |            made this discovery, and stretched myself lazily in the shade
1466 X   |           both the prior and I were stricken with fear. The abbot went
1467 IX  |           rivals, and the lightning strikes the highest peaks.' Have
1468 VII |         rarely and in private, thus striving our utmost to conceal what
1469 XIV |           sex needs the help of the stronger one to such an extent that
1470 XI  |           to increase his glory. We strove to extinguish his fame,
1471 XV  |            kill me. And while I was struggling in the midst of these dangers,
1472 VII |       philosopher, that is to say a student or a lover of wisdom because
1473 III |          the sacred books simply by studying them themselves, together
1474 XII |         purpose of my condemnation. Stunned by this fear like one smitten
1475 VII |           and distaffs, between the stylus or the pen and the spindle?
1476 XIV |           bishop, priest, deacon or subdeacon to cast off all responsibility
1477 X   |              In vain did I offer to submit to the customary discipline
1478 IX  |             to the legate; to him I submitted my book for examination
1479 VIII|            vainly to deter her from submitting her fresh youth to the heavy
1480 X   |          summoned the abbot and his subordinates that they might state their
1481 XIII|             pertaining thereto, and subsequently, through the approval and
1482 XI  |        familiar, I was compelled to substitute the service of the tongue
1483 IX  |         taken as the measure of the subtlety of him who succeeds in answering
1484 V   |       ordinary people, perverse and subtly flattering chance gave birth
1485 IX  |         stead, and, so to speak, to succeed them as heirs. While they
1486 IX  |             the subtlety of him who succeeds in answering them. As a
1487 III |          that it was my wont to win success, not by routine, but by
1488 II  |            with his pupils, and the successes which fortune gave to us,
1489 IX  |             this, indeed, they were successful, and the thing happened
1490 XI  |       special temple of God. In the successive sacraments, moreover, the
1491 X   |           he died. ~ As soon as his successor had been named, I went to
1492 XIII|        perpetuity to them and their successors. And this refuge of divine
1493 II  |           his purpose to bring them succour, he did nought but hurt
1494 VII |         prevent this Charybdis from sucking you down headlong, and to
1495 XIV |            pain, being so quick and sudden, for I was heavy with sleep
1496 VII |         from an upper story, he was suddenly drenched with foul slops;
1497 XV  |       intimacy of speech, it should suffice for your sorrows and the
1498 IX  |      argument they used was that it sufficed for the condemnation of
1499 XIV |       himself each one's conscience suffices, but for our own sakes our
1500 X   |            punished for having thus sullied his crown and the glory