Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
It may be proper to acquaint the reader, that the following Letter was written by _Abelard_ to a friend, to comfort him under some afflictions which had befallen him, by a recital of his own sufferings, which had been much heavier. It contains a particular account of his amour...
It may be proper to acquaint the reader, that the following Letter was written by _Abelard_ to a friend, to comfort him under some afflictions which had befallen him, by a recit...
2. LETTER II.The foregoing Letter would probably not have produced any others, if it had been delivered to the person to whom it was directed; but falling by accident into _Heloise's_ hands,...
3. LETTER III.Could I have imagined that a letter not written to yourself could have fallen into your hands, I had been more cautious not to have inserted any thing in it which might awaken t...
4. LETTER IV.In the following Letter the passion of _Heloise_ breaks, out with more violence than ever. That which she had received from _Abelard_, instead of fortifying her resolutions, ser...
5. LETTER V._Heloise_ had been dangerously ill at the Convent of the Paraclete: immediately upon her recovery she wrote this Letter to _Abelard_, She seems now to have disengaged herself fr...
6. LETTER VI._Abelard_, having at last conquered the remains of his unhappy passion, had determined to put an end to so dangerous a correspondence as that between _Heloise_ and himself. The...