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505 5, 10-19| they thought, as they are commonly reported. Yet did I freely
506 13, 26-40| from Macedonia, no Church communicated with me as concerning giving
507 6, 2-2 | to the poor; that so the communication of the Lord's Body might
508 4, 4-7 | but too dear to me, from a community of pursuits, of mine own
509 13, 30-45| neither madest them, nor even compactedst them, such as all flesh
510 1, 7-12 | the frame Thou gavest, compacting its limbs, ornamenting its
511 4, 2-2 | after leasing, myself their companion. In those years I had one, -
512 11, 23-30| space as twelve hours; and comparing both times, should call
513 1, 16-26| men with rich rewards, for compassing such learning; and a great
514 3, 2-2 | be styled misery: when he compassionates others, then it is mercy.
515 12, 17-24| say they, "universally and compendiously, all this visible world;
516 9, 9-20 | correct them. Then, when in compliance with his mother, and for
517 6, 5-7 | merciful hand, touching and composing my heart, didst persuade
518 12, 6-6 | receiving these visible and compound figures. ~ ~
519 13, 11-12| 13.11.12 Which of us comprehendeth the Almighty Trinity? and
520 4, 11-17| thy flesh a capacity for comprehending the whole, and not itself
521 12, 19-28| the earth, which briefly comprise all made and created natures.
522 8, 2-3 | related what I will not conceal. For it contains great praise
523 8, 2-4 | the same answer, and the conceit of the "walls" was by the
524 10, 9-16 | from us, the memory still conceives. For those things are not
525 12, 29-40| compose. So then the chant is concentrated in its sound, which sound
526 10, 32-48| of smells, I am not much concerned. When absent, I do not miss
527 10, 36-58| also among things of slight concernment, or shall aught bring us
528 1, 13-22| with least detriment to the concerns of life, reading and writing
529 11, 7-9 | successively, one thing concluded that the next might be spoken,
530 13, 26-41| name of a disciple: and so concludeth, Verily I say unto you,
531 12, 30-41| let Truth herself produce concord. And our God have mercy
532 13, 33-48| was before, but of matter concreated (that is, at the same time
533 6, 15-25| being multiplied, and my concubine being torn from my side
534 10, 37-60| two or all of the three concupiscences, if the soul cannot discern
535 10, 36-59| nor delivered when Thou condemnest. But when-not the sinner
536 6, 1 | learned, I had pronounced on, condemning. For Thou, Most High, and
537 7, 1-2 | spaces, nor diffused, nor condensed, nor swelled out, or did
538 10, 25-36| being (as when we rejoice, condole, desire, fear, remember,
539 5, 11-21| times verily I had a wish to confer upon these several points
540 9, 9-19 | them, even for one day, and confidentially asking the reason, she taught
541 6, 1-1 | and land, in all perils confiding in Thee. For in perils of
542 6, 4-5 | maintained any tenet which should confine Thee, the Creator of all,
543 7, 7-11 | I without: nor was that confined to place, but I was intent
544 12, 16-23| things), and Thou conform and confirm it for ever, O my God, my
545 3, 8-15 | a thing agreed upon, and confirmed, by custom or law of any
546 8, 10-24| wills in one man, that the conflict is between two contrary
547 13, 2-3 | though not equally, yet conformably to that Form which is equal
548 7, 19-25| a Virgin, He seemed, in conformity therewith, through the Divine
549 12, 17-25| this same formlessness and confusedness of matter, was for this
550 1, 20-31| fell headlong into sorrows, confusions, errors. Thanks be to Thee,
551 7, 6-10 | attack, and with derision to confute) might urge against me that
552 8, 7-18 | arguments were spent and confuted; there remained a mute shrinking;
553 8, 6-15 | he affirmed), and piously congratulated them, recommending themselves
554 6, 2-2 | forth into her praises; congratulating me that I had such a mother;
555 8, 2-5 | another with the voice of congratulation. And who there knew him
556 9, 7-15 | divers (yea, almost all) Thy congregations, throughout other parts
557 7, 5-8 | to come, but that men's conjectures were a sort of lottery,
558 6, 3-3 | we were fain to depart, conjecturing that in the small interval
559 10, 43-68| might by a righteousness conjoined with God make void that
560 2, 3-8 | restrain within the bounds of conjugal affection (if it could not
561 10, 19-28| it; whatever else occurs, connects itself not therewith; because
562 9, 13-36| nothing in Him, in Whom we conquer. Who shall restore to Him
563 8, 3-7 | crying out, "So is it." The conquering commander triumpheth; yet
564 1, 19-30| too, I often sought unfair conquests, conquered myself meanwhile
565 10, 34-53| sing a hymn to Thee, and do consecrate praise to Him who consecrateth
566 13, 20-28| people being initiated and consecrated by corporeal Sacraments,
567 10, 34-53| consecrate praise to Him who consecrateth me, because those beautiful
568 13, 23-34| discoursing disputing, consecrating, or praying unto Thee, so
569 1, 11-17| haste have provided for my consecration and cleansing by the health-giving
570 8, 6-13 | consideration of our friendship, consented to teach under Verecundus,
571 10, 35-56| Jerusalem, that as any consenting thereto is far from me,
572 4, 8-13 | season our more frequent consentings; sometimes to teach, and
573 11, 31-41| how far from it have the consequences of my transgressions cast
574 11, 28-37| expecteth, through that which it considereth, passeth into that which
575 3, 12-21| his seduced mother been consigned over to the Manichees, and
576 10, 37-61| praised by all men, or being consistent and most settled in the
577 10, 35-54| concupiscence of the flesh which consisteth in the delight of all senses
578 12, 8-8 | which this changeable world consists, but subsists not; whose
579 13, 34-49| of unbelievers into one conspiracy, that the zeal of the faithful
580 6, 2-2 | fervent in spirit, she was constant at church; so that, when
581 1, 8-13 | rejects, or shuns. And thus by constantly hearing words, as they occurred
582 11, 23-30| motions of the heavenly bodies constitute times, because, when at
583 12, 6-6 | it body? Is it that which constituteth soul or body? Might one
584 7, 6-10 | Ruler of the Universe, while consulters and consulted know it not,
585 7, 10-16| and Thou madest my soul to consume away like a spider. And
586 10, 29-40| who ever burnest and never consumest! O charity, my God, kindle
587 9, 9-21 | horrible and wide-spreading contagion of sin, not only disclose
588 12, 11-12| than Thine house, which contemplateth Thy delights without any
589 9, 6-14 | Him we joined with us, our contemporary in grace, to he brought
590 12, 25-35| meant; and with pernicious contentions to offend charity itself,
591 9, 2-4 | of lies. Nor would I be contentious. But hast not Thou, O most
592 10, 33-49| are stirred up. But this contentment of the flesh, to which the
593 1, 10-16| the pride of victory in my contests, and to have my ears tickled
594 6, 12-21| thenceforth until now most continently. But I opposed him with
595 6, 13-23| 6.13.23 Continual effort was made to have
596 13, 36-51| sanctified it to an everlasting continuance; that that which Thou didst
597 11, 28-37| and yet our consideration continueth, through which that which
598 9, 13-35| debts, whatever she may have contracted in so many years, since
599 8, 11-26| openly showing themselves and contradicting me, but muttering as it
600 12, 25-34| poor, in Whose bosom is no contradiction, pour down a softening dew
601 12, 16-23| Confessions and these men's contradictions. ~ ~
602 7, 17-23| itself from those troops of contradictory phantasms; that so it might
603 8, 12-29| weeping in the most bitter contrition of my heart, when, lo! I
604 7, 7-11 | vehemently sought, those silent contritions of my soul were strong cries
605 8, 11-27| the Lord thy God." This controversy in my heart was self against
606 7, 5-7 | know), but as I thought convenient, yet every way finite. But
607 8, 10-23| whether he should go to their conventicle or to the theatre, these
608 1, 13-22| the signs which men have conventionally settled. If, again, I should
609 3, 12-21| she often mentioned in her conversations with me) as if it had sounded
610 9, 6-14 | there ascribed to the person conversing with me were his ideas,
611 8, 12-30| sorrowful groanings. For thou convertedst me unto Thyself, so that
612 13, 4-5 | goodness, restraining them and converting them to form, not as though
613 4, 3-6 | from or through him, Thou conveyedst to me, and tracedst in my
614 12, 11-12| neither future to expect, nor conveying into the past what it remembereth,
615 5, 11-21| produced not any uncorrupted copies. But I, conceiving of things
616 3, 7-13 | certain time not so; in one corner permitted or commanded,
617 2, 8-16 | and discovereth its dark corners? What is it which hath come
618 5, 3-6 | commanded to believe; and yet it corresponded not with what had been established
619 5, 12-22| persons, though I love them if corrigible, so as to prefer to money
620 7, 13-19| which may break in, and corrupt that order which Thou hast
621 3, 8-16 | gives itself the lie, by corrupting and perverting their nature,
622 2, 1 | and wherein did I even corruptly and pervertedly imitate
623 8, 6-15 | the tower at the necessary cost, the forsaking all that
624 4, 7-12 | pleasures of the bed and the couch; nor (finally) in books
625 6, 10-16| And the very judge, whose councillor Alypius was, although also
626 10, 30-41| wedlock itself, Thou hast counselled something better than what
627 6, 7-12 | what was but a shadowy and counterfeit virtue. ~ ~
628 9, 8-18 | woman, and that her earnest countermanding? Would aught avail against
629 8, 6-14 | Alypius, one Pontitianus, our countryman so far as being an African,
630 6, 3-3 | Ambrose himself, as the world counts happy, I esteemed a happy
631 9, 3-5 | However, he offered us courteously to remain at his country-house
632 6, 2-2 | abstemious habits, which for courtesy she would taste. And if
633 3, 3-6 | view to excelling in the courts of litigation; the more
634 1, 18-29| sons of men observe the covenanted rules of letters and syllables
635 3, 7-13 | adapted to each part should cover his head with greaves, or
636 1, 1-4 | rejoicing in gains; never covetous, yet exacting usury. Thou
637 9, 12-32| be rais'd that sink and cower, And sorrows be subdu'd." - ~ ~
638 3, 3-6 | the more bepraised, the craftier. Such is men's blindness,
639 12, 19-28| Thy Wisdom, in Which Thou createst all: and true again, that
640 12, 15-20| betwixt the Wisdom that createth, and that created; as betwixt
641 7, 6-9 | things, told by one of such credibility, all that my resistance
642 13, 23-34| all creeping things which creep upon the earth. For He judgeth
643 1, 13-22| the burning of Troy," and "Creusa's shade and sad similitude,"
644 7, 10-16| finite or infinite?" And Thou criedst to me from afar: "Yet verily,
645 6, 1-1 | which physicians call "the crisis." ~ ~
646 5, 11-21| what the Manichees had criticised in Thy Scriptures, I thought
647 3, 2-2 | goes away disgusted and criticising; but if he be moved to passion,
648 10, 36-59| serve him, pervertedly and crookedly imitating Thee. But we,
649 9, 4-7 | imaginations, straightening my crookedness, and smoothing my rough
650 10, 34-52| laid his hands, mystically crossed, upon his grandchildren
651 6, 6-9 | I underwent most bitter crosses, Thou being the more gracious,
652 6, 2-2 | had been sacrificed and crowned. But yet it seems to me,
653 5, 9-16 | For how should He, by the crucifixion of a phantasm, which I believed
654 9, 9-21 | break out into, when the crudities of enmities are breathed
655 2, 6-13 | glorious for evermore. The cruelty of the great would fain
656 11, 26-33| longer, as by the space of a cubit, the space of a rood? for
657 5, 4-7 | although he know not how many cubits high it is, or how wide
658 13, 1-1 | remain uncultivated, unless I cultivated Thee: but serving and worshipping
659 13, 1-1 | lacking my service: nor cultivating Thy service, as a land,
660 2, 3-5 | however barren I were to Thy culture, O God, who art the only
661 10, 34-53| are conveyed into their cunning hands, come from that Beauty,
662 5, 6-10 | the utmost neatness of the cup-bearer to my thirst for a more
663 9, 8-17 | mistresses of cellars and cupboards, you will scorn water, but
664 10, 36-58| with good things: who didst curb my pride with Thy fear,
665 4, 3-5 | for this disease Thou only curest, who resistest the proud,
666 6, 7-12 | that I then thought not of curing Alypius of that infection.
667 5, 3-4 | air, nor their own diving curiosities (wherewith, like the fishes
668 1, 14-23| like tales? For Homer also curiously wove the like fictions,
669 9, 8-18 | Thy purposes the deepest currents, and the ruled turbulence
670 10, 19-28| maimed, as it were, by the curtailment of its ancient habit, demanded
671 5, 8-15 | in memory of the blessed Cyprian. That night I privily departed,
672 8, 2-4 | offend his friends, proud daemon-worshippers, from the height of whose
673 8, 2-4 | sacrilegious rites of those proud daemons, whose pride he had imitated
674 3, 4-7 | to be eminent, out of a damnable and vainglorious end, a
675 1, 16-26| descending in a golden shower To Danae's lap a woman to beguile."
676 2, 7-15 | weighing his own infirmity, dares to ascribe his purity and
677 4, 9-14 | mourning, if one die, and darkenings of sorrows, that steeping
678 8, 9-21 | penalties of men, and those darkest pangs of the sons of Adam,
679 13, 2-3 | Thee, even to ebb and flow darksomely like the deep, -unlike Thee,
680 9, 8-17 | the charge of her master's daughters was entrusted to her, to
681 11, 2-2 | skill and unskilfulness, the daybreak of Thy enlightening, and
682 12, 16-23| things, let them bark and deafen themselves as much as they
683 9, 13-35| for us. I know that she dealt mercifully, and from her
684 4, 6-11 | that wretched life I held dearer than my friend. For though
685 13, 21-29| it lived in pleasures; in death-bringing pleasures, Lord, for Thou,
686 4, 4-8 | fever, he lay senseless in a death-sweat; and his recovery being
687 10, 30-42| images of sense, commit those debasing corruptions, even to pollution
688 5, 9-17 | debts, to become also a debtor by Thy promises. ~ ~
689 9, 13-35| from her heart forgave her debtors their debts; do Thou also
690 2, 6-12 | by its birth that which decayeth; nay, nor even that false
691 10, 31-43| drinking we repair the daily decays of our body, until Thou
692 7, 1-1 | 7.1.1 Deceased was now that my evil and
693 8, 2-3 | philosophers, full of fallacies and deceits, after the rudiments of
694 10, 31-44| or whether a voluptuous deceivableness of greediness is proffering
695 10, 36-59| truth, and set it in the deceivingness of men; and be pleased at
696 10, 33-50| over-anxiously this very deception, I err in too great strictness;
697 5, 7-12 | him able satisfactorily to decide what I much desired, whether,
698 6, 10-16| done it, Alypius would have decided otherwise. With this one
699 13, 32-47| behold the face of the earth decked out with earthly creatures,
700 1, 18-29| surrounded by a human throng, declaiming against his enemy with fiercest
701 1, 17-27| true life, my God, that my declamation was applauded above so many
702 12, 17-24| meant as we say, this declared he by those words." "What?" "
703 4, 10-15| created, they hear their decree, "hence and hitherto." ~ ~
704 9, 8-17 | diligence, as that of a certain decrepit maid-servant, who had carried
705 4, 14-21| moved me, O Lord my God, to dedicate these books unto Hierius,
706 8, 6-15 | they heard hereof, also dedicated their virginity unto God. ~ ~
707 5, 3-5 | They knew not this way, and deemed themselves exalted amongst
708 3, 1-1 | loved to love, and out of a deep-seated want, I hated myself for
709 13, 21-29| hereby, in Thy Word, not the deepness of the sea, but the earth
710 10, 38-63| until what is lacking in my defective state be renewed and perfected,
711 13, 15-17| destroy the enemy and the defender, who resisteth Thy reconciliation
712 13, 15-17| resisteth Thy reconciliation by defending his own sins. I know not,
713 10, 4-6 | the same who begat me, and defends me: and Thou Thyself art
714 8, 7-17 | wisdom; and still I was deferring to reject mere earthly felicity,
715 8, 5-12 | lethargy in all his limbs, defers to shake off sleep, and
716 11, 24-31| Thou bid me assent, if any define time to be "motion of a
717 10, 14-22| subordinate species, and by defining it, in my memory find I
718 5, 10-20| body, and that diffused in definite spaces), than to believe
719 11, 26-33| longer time than that," or definitely "this is double that"? That
720 13, 5-6 | instability of its spiritual deformity, unless it had been converted
721 2, 3-7 | boasting, the more they were degraded: and I took pleasure, not
722 8, 2-3 | love of - Anubis, barking Deity, and all The monster Gods
723 2, 2-2 | of sorrows, with a proud dejectedness, and a restless weariness. ~ ~
724 6, 11-20| that, time passed on, but I delayed to turn to the Lord; and
725 6, 10-16| justice, he altered his deliberation for the better; esteeming
726 7, 16-22| offensive, which to the sound is delightful. And Thy righteousness displeaseth
727 13, 18-22| action, arriving at the delightfulness of contemplation, obtaining
728 12, 15-21| house most lightsome and delightsome! I have loved thy beauty,
729 6, 16-26| behold, Thou art at hand, and deliverest us from our wretched wanderings,
730 13, 24-36| behold, what Scripture delivers, and the voice pronounces
731 4, 3-5 | would not get his living by deluding people. "But thou," saith
732 5, 13-23| wandering amid Manichaean delusions, the other teaching salvation
733 4, 3-5 | business and actions of the demander." ~ ~
734 1, 5-5 | what am I to Thee that Thou demandest my love, and, if I give
735 12, 1-1 | say than discovering, and demanding is longer than obtaining,
736 12, 30-41| charity. By this if man demands of me, "which of these was
737 10, 3-3 | may hear, to whom I cannot demonstrate whether I confess truly;
738 8, 2-4 | firmness, and feared to be denied by Christ before the holy
739 11, 28-37| things to come. And who denies past things to be now no
740 10, 12-19| when discussed they are denoted: but the sounds are other
741 11, 23-30| For I ask, Seeing "day" denotes not the stay only of the
742 8, 3-8 | deepest! and Thou never departest, and we scarcely return
743 1, 8-13 | intercourse of human life, yet depending on parental authority and
744 1, 7-11 | and whose very life as yet depends thereon? We bear gently
745 5, 12-22| Thee. And now I hate such depraved and crooked persons, though
746 4, 3-6 | and of a holy fear, who derided the whole body of divination,
747 6, 6-9 | gains, marriage; and thou deridedst me. In these desires I underwent
748 3, 8-16 | spectators of gladiators, or deriders and mockers of others. These
749 10, 12-19| will pity him, while he derides me. ~ ~
750 3, 3-6 | deceiving spirits secretly deriding and seducing them, wherein
751 2, 3-6 | already hence anticipating his descendants, gladly told it to my mother;
752 1, 16-26| tale was drawn, Of Jove's descending in a golden shower To Danae'
753 7, 21-27| they spoil not who have deserted the heavenly army; for they
754 7, 21-27| and beset by fugitives and deserters, under their captain the
755 8, 5-12 | even against its will; but deservedly, for that it willingly fell
756 3, 3-5 | and to compass a business deserving death for its fruits, for
757 6, 6-9 | with those my ambitious designs was seeking one much less
758 6, 6-10 | joyed in drunkenness; Thou desiredst to joy in glory." What glory,
759 12, 11-13| seeks of Thee one thing, and desireth it, that she may dwell in
760 6, 15-25| became less acute, but more desperate. ~ ~
761 3, 11-19| Thou heardest her, and despisedst not her tears, when streaming
762 1, 6-7 | man. Thou too, perhaps, despisest me, yet wilt Thou return
763 1, 20-31| our God, even hadst Thou destined for me boyhood only. For
764 3, 3-5 | refuge from those terrible destroyers, among whom I wandered with
765 12, 17-24| several days, to arrange in detail, and, as it were, piece
766 1, 13-22| be forgotten with least detriment to the concerns of life,
767 11, 27-35| 11.27.35 "Deus Creator omnium," this verse
768 3, 3-6 | for this ill-omened and devilish name was the very badge
769 4, 16-26| truth, but by my vanity devised out of things corporeal.
770 8, 1-1 | youth he had lived most devoted unto Thee. Now he was grown
771 9, 2-2 | thwart, and would out of love devour us, as it doth its meat. ~ ~
772 3, 6-11 | food as through it I had devoured. ~ ~
773 3, 8-16 | loved. So then by a humble devoutness we return to Thee; and Thou
774 9, 6-14 | entitled The Master; it is a dialogue between him and me. Thou
775 4, 4-8 | felt in his one self? What diddest Thou then, my God, and how
776 6, 6-10 | He that very night should digest his drunkenness; but I had
777 12, 17-26| those things which being now digested into order, are called Heaven
778 5, 3-4 | day and hour, and how many digits, -nor did their calculation
779 5, 8-14 | higher gains and higher dignities were warranted me by my
780 9, 8-17 | to her, to which she gave diligent heed, restraining them earnestly,
781 6, 2-2 | than one small cup of wine, diluted according to her own abstemious
782 10, 37-61| only, but dispraise doth diminish it. And when I am troubled
783 10, 6-8 | there tasteth what eating diminisheth not, and there clingeth
784 10, 8-12 | either by enlarging or diminishing, or any other way varying
785 3, 7-13 | which is forbidden in the dining-room; and should be angry, that
786 6, 8-13 | fellow-students coming from dinner, and they with a familiar
787 7, 9-14 | in heart; and the meek He directeth in judgment, and the gentle
788 13, 22-32| after his kind; but by Thy direction proveth what is that good,
789 13, 15-16| not as yet enlarged in all directions the glory of their deaths. ~ ~
790 13, 22-32| truth, needs not man as his director, so as to follow after his
791 9, 9-21 | createdst me, that between any disagreeing and discordant parties where
792 12, 23-32| knowest it), two sorts of disagreements I see may arise, when a
793 13, 23-34| He findeth right, and He disalloweth what He findeth amiss, whether
794 13, 23-34| allowing of what is right, and disallowing what he finds amiss, in
795 1, 7-11 | evils, but because they will disappear as years increase; for,
796 13, 14-15| darkness, night. For who discerneth us, but Thou? And what have
797 10, 31-44| while I am passing from the discomfort of emptiness to the content
798 3, 9-17 | the rule of perfection, discommended, yet the persons commended,
799 4, 8-13 | dissent at times without discontent, as a man might with his
800 9, 9-21 | between any disagreeing and discordant parties where she was able,
801 5, 10-19| did I freely and openly discourage that host of mine from that
802 12, 26-36| should that fail of being discoverable in those same words. ~ ~
803 12, 32-43| pleasest; that so, whether Thou discoverest the same to us, as to that
804 2, 8-16 | enlighteneth my heart, and discovereth its dark corners? What is
805 11, 22-28| too deeply hidden, and the discovery of them were new. ~ ~
806 9, 8-18 | wine. Where was then that discreet old woman, and that her
807 8, 6-13 | But he acted herein very discreetly, shunning to become known
808 1, 9-15 | worsted in some trifling discussion with his fellow-tutor, was
809 3, 3-5 | up in a little one. But I disdained to be a little one; and,
810 13, 20-27| themselves cast them forth, the diseased bitterness whereof was the
811 6, 6-10 | thoroughly drenched in mirth, I disembowelled with cares: but he, by fair
812 10, 33-49| thereby, but that I can disengage myself when I will. But
813 2, 10-18| 2.10.18 Who can disentangle that twisted and intricate
814 10, 30-42| soul may follow me to Thee, disentangled from the birdlime of concupiscence;
815 5, 2-2 | injured Thee? or how have they disgraced Thy government, which, from
816 10, 31-44| cloak of health, it may disguise the matter of gratification.
817 3, 6-11 | five elements, variously disguised, answering to five dens
818 3, 4-8 | honourable name colouring and disguising their own errors: and almost
819 10, 21-30| that I can recall it with disgust sometimes, at others with
820 3, 2-2 | moved to tears, he goes away disgusted and criticising; but if
821 13, 14-15| others also are made unto dishonour. ~ ~
822 2, 9-17 | we were doing, and much disliked it. Why then was my delight
823 6, 11-19| 19 "Perish every thing, dismiss we these empty vanities,
824 1, 10-16| have put to good use. For I disobeyed, not from a better choice,
825 2, 2-3 | one had then attempered my disorder, and turned to account the
826 13, 34-49| things, and rectify our disorders; for our sins hung over
827 13, 6-7 | it not teach me vanities, dispel its darkness; and tell me,
828 13, 20-28| there been no need of Thy dispensers to work in many waters,
829 13, 15-16| those mortals by whom Thou dispensest it unto us, underwent mortality.
830 1, 18-29| and by an unwearied law dispensing penal blindness to lawless
831 12, 16-23| all that I am, from this dispersed and disordered estate, into
832 10, 6-8 | smelleth what breathing disperseth not, and there tasteth what
833 10, 11-18| collected together from their dispersion: whence the word "cogitation"
834 1, 19-30| just as severer punishments displace the cane. It was the low
835 1, 8-13 | or rather it came to me, displacing infancy. Nor did that depart,- (
836 3, 7-13 | of places and times were disposed according to those times
837 2, 3-8 | recalling, as well as I may, the disposition of my parents. The reins,
838 10, 36-59| also is praised, while Thou dispraisest; better is he who praised
839 8, 10-24| For Thou, O true God, dost disprove, check, and convict them;
840 5, 11-21| Helpidius, as he spoke and disputed face to face against the
841 10, 14-22| memory. Why then does not the disputer, thus recollecting, taste
842 9, 11-27| the care for that any way disquiet you: this only I request,
843 5, 8-15 | Thine ears, Who didst then disregard them; whilst through my
844 4, 8-13 | be earnest together; to dissent at times without discontent,
845 4, 8-13 | the seldomness of these dissentings, to season our more frequent
846 2, 1-1 | me again out of that my dissipation, wherein I was torn piecemeal,
847 2, 3-8 | in sport, yea, even unto dissoluteness in whatsoever I affected.
848 9, 13-36| For she, the day of her dissolution now at hand, took no thought
849 12, 15-19| not detached from Him, nor dissolved into the variety and vicissitude
850 5, 1-1 | back Thy hand: for Thou dissolvest it at Thy will in pity or
851 11, 29-39| what is behind, and not distended but extended, not to things
852 13, 32-47| them, and in clear nights distill down in dew; and those heavier
853 8, 9-21 | that command is scarce distinct from obedience. Yet the
854 10, 40-65| with myself, numbering and distinguishing the reporters themselves,
855 11, 29-39| things which are before, not distractedly but intently, I follow on
856 4, 4-9 | him, wanting him, became a distracting torture. Mine eyes sought
857 11, 29-39| also through our manifold distractions amid many things, that by
858 1, 6-7 | ordinance, whereby Thou distributest Thy riches through the hidden
859 13, 34-49| forth works of mercy, even distributing to the poor their earthly
860 6, 1-1 | the depths of the sea, and distrusted and despaired of ever finding
861 10, 17-26| these do I run, I fly; I dive on this side and on that,
862 12, 6-6 | having innumerable forms and diverse, and therefore did not conceive
863 12, 3-3 | before Thou formedst and diversifiedst this formless matter, there
864 12, 30-41| 12.30.41 In this diversity of the true opinions, let
865 12, 12-15| well-formed earth: and the waters diversly ordered, and whatsoever
866 4, 3-6 | derided the whole body of divination, could persuade me to cast
867 5, 3-4 | of the air, nor their own diving curiosities (wherewith,
868 10, 6-8 | there clingeth what satiety divorceth not. This is it which I
869 13, 34-49| placed above, who were to he docile unto Thee, and those under,
870 10, 35-57| now to the circus to see a dog coursing a hare; but in
871 3, 2-2 | to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which
872 13, 38-53| opened. Amen. GRATIAS TIBI DOMINE~.~ ~
873 12, 22-31| distinctly speaks of, Thrones, Dominions, Principalities, Powers.
874 6, 2-2 | and was forbidden by the door-keeper; so soon as she knew that
875 3, 7-13 | something permitted out of doors, which is forbidden in the
876 10, 8-13 | they also are there, lying dormant, and laid up, as it were,
877 7, 6-10 | things, that no one of those dotards (who lived by such a trade,
878 6, 7-11 | found then how deadly he doted upon the Circus, and was
879 3, 6-10 | I fell among men proudly doting, exceeding carnal and prating,
880 6, 6-10 | with me, and grieved, and doubled that very ill; and if any
881 6, 2-2 | a son she had in me, who doubted of all these things, and
882 12, 22-31| well-grounded understanding doubteth, nor again will any sober
883 7, 5-8 | often (though with some doubtfulness) saying, "That there was
884 1, 16-25| and the adulterer? both, doubtless, he could not be; but so
885 3, 9-17 | some society of men, who doubts but it is to be done, seeing
886 4, 1-1 | but a guide to mine own downfall? or what am I even at the
887 7, 13-19| do show from the earth, dragons, and all deeps, fire, hail,
888 1, 18-28| ever? and even now Thou drawest out of this horrible gulf
889 8, 10-22| gross darkness through a dreadful arrogancy; for that they
890 6, 12-21| sweetness, drew along my chain, dreading to be loosed, and as if
891 3, 11-19| Thine hand from above, and drewest my soul out of that profound
892 10, 8-12 | it perchance I?" These I drive away with the hand of my
893 9, 12-32| Greek Balaneion for that it drives sadness from the mind. And
894 13, 30-45| Lord my God, and drank up a drop of sweetness out of Thy
895 11, 2-2 | utter them in order, the drops of time are precious with
896 6, 11-20| these winds shifted and drove my heart this way and that,
897 8, 5-12 | yet overcome with a heavy drowsiness, are again drenched therein.
898 8, 5-12 | but only those dull and drowsy words, "Anon, anon," "presently," "
899 8, 6-13 | concupiscence, and out of the drudgery of worldly things, I will
900 10, 31-45| did we before receive it. Drunkard was I never, but drunkards
901 10, 31-45| Drunkard was I never, but drunkards have I known made sober
902 6, 2-2 | excess might be given to the drunken; and for these, as it were,
903 13, 24-37| also replenished, whose dryness appeareth in its longing,
904 4, 16-24| without sex; but the latter a Duad; -anger, in deeds of violence,
905 9, 7-16 | they were discovered and dug up, and with due honour
906 8, 5-12 | to answer, but only those dull and drowsy words, "Anon,
907 12, 4-4 | measure conveyed to those of duller mind, but by some ordinary
908 10, 35-57| despise and pass it by, I dully stand fixed therein. What,
909 10, 40-65| be freed from necessary duties, unto this pleasure have
910 9, 12-30| of duty, she called me "dutiful," and mentioned, with great
911 6, 9-14 | away, and gathering the dwellers in the market-place together,
912 11, 31-41| humble in heart are Thy dwelling-place; for Thou raisest up those
913 1, 11-17| my salvation), would in eager haste have provided for
914 11, 9-11 | shall be renewed like an eagle's. For in hope we are saved,
915 4, 3-5 | saying, that he had in his earliest years studied that art,
916 1, 9-14 | small, yet with no small earnestness, that I might not be beaten
917 13, 26-40| not because his strait was eased, who saith unto Thee, Thou
918 9, 3-6 | for the love I bare to the easeful liberty, that I might sing
919 4, 15-22| are the hairs of his head easier to be numbered than his
920 9, 7-15 | after the manner of the Eastern Churches, Hymns and Psalms
921 3, 10-18| had some Manichaean saint eaten, and mingled with his bowels,
922 13, 2-3 | deserve of Thee, even to ebb and flow darksomely like
923 13, 4-5 | seeing it liveth also, ebbing and flowing in its own darkness:
924 8, 3-8 | this portion of things thus ebbs and flows alternately displeased
925 6, 11-18| despair not. Lo, things in the ecclesiastical books are not absurd to
926 1, 13-21| Well done! well done!" echoes on till one is ashamed not
927 5, 3-4 | light, moon or sun is to be eclipsed, and so it shall be, as
928 13, 24-37| spiritual gifts set forth for edification, as in the lights of heaven;
929 12, 18-27| But the law is good to edify, if a man use it lawfully:
930 9, 8-17 | neither did she make nor educate herself. Thou createdst
931 9, 8-17 | good member of Thy Church, educated her in Thy fear. Yet for
932 10, 16-25| whereby what we remember is effaced. ~ ~
933 7, 5-7 | should the All-mighty have effected, that this evil matter should
934 6, 7-12 | attributed to Thyself, Thou effectedst it through me, unknowingly.
935 4, 1-1 | my nineteenth year to my eight-and-twentieth) we lived seduced and seducing,
936 7, 1-2 | Thee, that the body of an elephant should contain more of Thee,
937 8, 2-5 | grace, deliver, from an elevated place, in the sight of all
938 11, 31-41| and they fall not, whose elevation Thou art.~.
939 5, 7-13 | by chance something more eligible should dawn upon me. Thus,
940 11, 12-14| said to have done merrily (eluding the pressure of the question), "
941 9, 13-36| sumptuously wound up, or embalmed with spices; nor desired
942 2, 5-11 | fear of the laws, and his embarrassments from domestic needs, and
943 2, 2-3 | more happily awaited Thy embraces; ~ ~
944 2, 6-12 | the earth, or sea, full of embryo-life, replacing by its birth
945 13, 7-8 | space that we are merged and emerge. What can be more, and yet
946 9, 3-6 | Son to be a phantom: yet emerging thence, he believed as we
947 4, 4-8 | amazed, suppressed all my emotions till he should grow well,
948 2, 5-11 | city, attain to honours, empire, riches, and be freed from
949 4, 17-30| profited me good abilities, not employed to good uses? For I felt
950 6, 7-12 | rebuked him, but Thou, who employest all, knowing or not knowing,
951 9, 7-16 | fury of a woman, but an Empress. For when they were discovered
952 3, 6-10 | for Thou wast not these emptinesses, nor was I nourished by
953 10, 7-11 | one mind, do through them enact. I will pass beyond this
954 8, 11-25| And as I spake, I all but enacted it: I all but did it, and
955 11, 28-37| save that in the mind which enacteth this, there be three things
956 2, 3-6 | its Creator, and becometh enamoured of Thy creature, instead
957 2, 1 | here we live hath its own enchantment, through a certain proportion
958 10, 6-9 | unto all the things which encompass the door of my flesh: "Ye
959 5, 2-2 | every where, Whom no place encompasseth! and Thou alone art near,
960 1, 14-23| smiling and sportively encouraging me. This I learned without
961 8, 5-11 | as we should fear to be encumbered with it. ~ ~
962 10, 40-65| But through my miserable encumbrances I sink down again into these
963 2, 6-13 | unwonted and sudden, which endangers things beloved, and takes
964 2, 1 | Human friendship also is endeared with a sweet tie, by reason
965 9, 12-30| last sickness, mingling her endearments with my acts of duty, she
966 9, 3-6 | proportion to his thirst, endlessly happy. Nor do I think that
967 6, 13-23| fantastic things, such as the energy of the human spirit, busied
968 10, 33-49| not be given over to be enervated, doth oft beguile me, the
969 7, 9-13 | to the very same purpose, enforced by many and divers reasons,
970 10, 35-56| that nothing of this sort engages my attention, or causes
971 11, 5-7 | the earth? and what the engine of Thy so mighty fabric?
972 5, 11-21| not whom, who wished to engraff the law of the Jews upon
973 11, 22-28| know this most intricate enigma. Shut it not up, O Lord
974 1, 5-6 | the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest
975 9, 4-8 | me; in tribulation Thou enlargedst me. Have mercy upon me,
976 10, 8-12 | besides we think, either by enlarging or diminishing, or any other
977 9, 4-7 | in writing, which was now enlisted in Thy service, though still,
978 9, 9-21 | into, when the crudities of enmities are breathed out in sour
979 12, 17-24| pleased the Holy Ghost thus to enounce. For such were that rude
980 11, 12-14| It is one thing to answer enquiries, another to make sport of
981 9, 11-27| standing by her, said to us enquiringly, "Where was I?" And then
982 10, 32-48| so that my mind making enquiry into herself of her own
983 5, 5-8 | Ghost, the Comforter and Enricher of Thy faithful ones, was
984 7, 19-25| eminence of authority, for an ensample of despising things temporal
985 1, 19-30| parents' cellar and table, enslaved by greediness, or that I
986 6, 7-12 | and seducing continency, ensnaring precious souls, unable as
987 10, 33-50| within, as that good action ensues. For you who do not act,
988 8, 6-13 | distraction of mind thence ensuing, and desiring to have it
989 10, 35-57| catching flies, or a spider entangling them rushing into her nets,
990 9, 1-1 | them forth, and for them enteredst in Thyself, sweeter than
991 10, 8-13 | brought out at need; each entering in by his own gate, and
992 10, 42-67| Angel of light. And it much enticed proud flesh, that he had
993 10, 30-41| yield no assent to such enticements? And yet so much difference
994 10, 34-52| her blind lovers, with an enticing and dangerous sweetness.
995 1, 20-31| by the inward sense the entireness of my senses, and in these
996 9, 2-3 | as it were fixed in our entrails: and the examples of Thy
997 9, 13-35| mother. Hearken unto me, I entreat Thee, by the Medicine of
998 3, 12-21| but urged him more, with entreaties and many tears, that he
999 4, 11-16| tired out with vanities. Entrust Truth, whatsoever thou hast
1000 10, 34-51| And so strongly doth it entwine itself, that if it be suddenly
1001 12, 17-24| so as afterwards by the enumeration of the several days, to
1002 3, 2-4 | surface; upon which, as on envenomed nails, followed inflamed
1003 1, 7-11 | seen and known even a baby envious; it could not speak, yet
1004 7, 5-7 | them good; and see how He environeth and fulfils them. Where
1005 7, 5-7 | I imagined on every part environing and penetrating it, though
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