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The Letters of St. Jerome, Volume I, Letters 1–22 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Provides an intimate portrait of the brilliant but strong minded Jerome; one of the four great doctors of the Christian West, and the most learned of the Latin fathers.

wouldst not blush.113 Let them have but a little purple in their dress and a head loosely bound, so that the hair may fall, tawdry sandals, and over their shoulders a fluttering little cloak,113a tight sleeves clinging to their arms, and a loose-kneed manner of walking: this is all such a person’s virginity amounts to. Let women of that sort have their admirers and let them exact more pay for their ruin because of their reputation for virginity. With such I rejoice to be unpopular.114 14. I am ashamed
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