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rtm * had been made a bishbp , and held W » scfcoote in a monastery . Abelard went to study rhetoric under him . His progress and controversies , attd teiftioft , again excited his master ' s disp leasure ; and Abeiard , on his father ' s turning monk , being recalled
by Ms mother , travelled afterwards toLaon , to hear Anselm , another applauded teacher . ** He describes him , as he might perhaps have been described himself , to have had a great flow of words * with small sense ; luxuriant foliage , with but scanty fruit . But here the restless avarice of fame pumfcd him . He thought he could
lecture oft the Scriptures better than Anselnf , thdtfgh he says he had known nothing of them before . He attempted it , frnd was preferred . His new master ' s persecution drove him again to Paris , atfd he remained quietly there for somer years , reading glosses on Ezekrel . He -states himself to have
got money here , as * well as reputation , bat to have becoihe itiimofah * His intercourse with Heloise , and its unfortunate termination , occurred at this period . Recovering from its disasters , and his scholars pressing him for human and philosophical reasons in suppott of the Trinity , h& wrote a book upon it , which darkened the rest of
his life with trouble and cBspnte . His book was burnt ; he was ordered to repeat the Athanasian Creed , of which lie says , * 'I read it , amid sighs and sobs and tears , as well as I could . " **
He was then sent to a cloister , to be confined ; and afterwards obtaining leave to go into a solitude , he went iato a wilderness . Scholar eagerly Mowed him from cities and castles , living with him there on bread and
* TfeteAttaelm died 1117 : lie was the author of a Gloss on the Old and New Tesitoaeirf , which his been praised and printe ( 1 There was another Atfseltn at the 8 a « n « time , an episcopus Lueertsisv whose * * itt defence " df Gregory VII ., against J « Attti pop ^ , is in the Bib . Mag * , v . xv . p .
He owns the corrupting effects of Fwjperityr on his , ^ - ^—muHaajna ; t ran - Witas vigorem ene * va * anim i et per car-^• i lleftebra 8 fmii *> wfcolvif ; : ITe adds , tale f thought \ was the only philoso * - L ln * W 0 ^ rWl—frasna- libicpini ctepi x »^ , qui * ffttea viste * am continfentisstme . ' r p . « . Cr £ » nter snspiria , singultus , etln * . **** * P <> ut potui . c . 9 . p . 25 . vl
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herbs , lying on . sffaw , and making clods of earth their tables . 28 Th&y supplied him with necessaries , they enlarged his little oratory * till at length they raised the monastery , which he called the Paraclete . His fame now spread over the \ # hole world * He was attacked by thte
celebrated St . Bernard , * on many paiot ^ He answered him ift several ' letters . He continued an affectionate and intellectual correspondence with ffeloisa , become an aWbess > encouraigi ^ her grood resolutions , and exhorting her to piety . His genius was ^ so admired , Ms eloquence Was so impressive , and his subtlety so attracting
thatvre find not o » iy England and Normandy sent hiiti scholars but even Rome ; and also Flandei ^ v Atx ~ joiiy Poitou , Gascon ^ y , Spair ^ - G&c ~ many and Swedeny 3 " so that he was really * an intellecttial Goliath of h 4 » d £ ty , as his sainted , but martial antagonist , aspiring to be a victorious David , denominates him . *
28 Scholares ccSperunf uridiqire eoricorrer 4 » , et relictis civitatibus et cast ^ tl i ^ soiitudinerri inhabitare , et pro deiicatis ciMs , herbi « agrestibvis et pane cibario victitarfe et pro riaolHfbus strtrtis , culmuii ) sibi et straifren &i > iftp&v&re et pro Ertensts gleba « erigere . c . xi . p . 28 . Anothelproof of the avidity With wliidh ma a kind seek intellectual iriiproveiBent wherever it is to he had .
29 Mr . Be ^ rritigftoii ' s account and w&rm panegyric of St . Bernard will be r ' ead tfith pleasure , 27 S —> 284 . But his early life seems' to have been not ^ o active a ^ s his panegytfist describes , for his contemporary antagonist , Berengarius , says to Kirn ^ - " Men are surprised to find in you , Who are ignorant of the liberal artfs , such a ^ flbw
of eloquence . — -We liav ^ e heard ^ that , froift akttbst the first rudiments of yoirr youth , you made mimic song's , and , popular melodies : nor do We speak from uncertain opinion . Did you not seek to coriquer your brothers , in contests of rhyriie , 4 xiA the infertility of acute inventionV Hfe
admits , however , that Bernard ' s fiattte hfita spread his writings over the world—citfcuni cjuoque fama divulgat . He even adds ' ^ caput tiium nubes tang"eb > af . Ep . Abel , p . 302 . 36 Their controversial epistles are printed in AbeiardV works .
31 So says his friend Fulco , prior ; and that no distance , no mountains , no d&ngc r ^ , could deter scholars from flocking- to hitn ' Ep . Ab . 218 . 32 ProcetHt Golias procero carpore , &c . whh Arnold <> f Brescia for his ^ ijuire ' .- **
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History of the Scliolastic Philosophy . 137
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1815, page 137, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1758/page/9/
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