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Book, Chapter
1006 13, 26-39| Philippians, what they had sent by Epaphroditus unto him: and yet I perceive
1007 5, 13-23| father, and showed me an Episcopal kindness on my coming. Thenceforth
1008 9, 4-7 | Nebridius, who was absent, my Epistles bear witness. And when shall
1009 10, 19-28| whereon the knowledge reposes equably as its wonted object. And
1010 7, 19-25| wisdom, whom no one could be equalled unto; especially, for that
1011 2, 3-7 | blindness, that amongst my equals I was ashamed of a less
1012 5, 3-6 | account of the solstices, or equinoxes, or the eclipses of the
1013 6, 10-16| for the better; esteeming equity whereby he was hindered
1014 9, 12-32| poured Soft slumbers o'er the night, That to our
1015 12, 22-31| name of heaven and earth; Ergo, there was something which
1016 8, 12-30| precious and purer way than she erst required, by having grandchildren
1017 4, 12-19| Virgin's womb, wherein He espoused the human creation, our
1018 10, 38-63| love of praise: which, to establish a certain excellency of
1019 6, 10-16| deliberation for the better; esteeming equity whereby he was hindered
1020 13, 20-27| necessities of the people estranged from the eternity of Thy
1021 10, 9-16 | smell while it passes and evaporates into air affects the sense
1022 9, 4-7 | tamedst me; and how Thou hast evened me, lowering the mountains
1023 3, 7-13 | which it presides, flow not evenly, because they are times.
1024 10, 8-14 | again infer future actions, events and hopes, and all these
1025 9, 10-25| made us that abideth for ever-If then having uttered this,
1026 11, 13-16| by the sublimity of an ever-present eternity; and surpassest
1027 11, 11-13| catch the glory of that everfixed Eternity, and compare it
1028 8, 3-8 | my God, whereas Thou art everlastingly joy to Thyself, and some
1029 | everything
1030 | everywhere
1031 11, 4-6 | make ourselves." Now the evidence of the thing, is the voice
1032 5, 5-8 | presumption would become evident enough, seeing he delivered
1033 10, 35-55| 55 But by this may more evidently be discerned, wherein pleasure
1034 13, 22-32| by which we died through evil-living; and begun to be a living
1035 5, 8-14 | uphold them; that custom evincing them to be the more miserable,
1036 7, 5-8 | who took care with most exact diligence to know the births
1037 1, 9-15 | or studying less than was exacted of us. For we wanted not,
1038 1, 1-4 | gains; never covetous, yet exacting usury. Thou receivest over
1039 2, 6-13 | For so doth pride imitate exaltedness; whereas Thou alone art
1040 13, 34-49| 13.34.49 We have also examined what Thou willedst to be
1041 11, 2-3 | voice is my joy; Thy voice exceedeth the abundance of pleasures.
1042 6, 3-3 | temptations which beset his very excellencies, or what comfort in adversities,
1043 3, 3-6 | commendable, had a view to excelling in the courts of litigation;
1044 12, 30-41| which among them chiefly excels both for light of truth,
1045 12, 30-41| true, those carnal ones excepted, of which I have spoken
1046 3, 7-13 | person; to the one they take exceptions, to the other they submit. ~ ~
1047 6, 2-2 | lest so an occasion of excess might be given to the drunken;
1048 10, 8-15 | is this force of memory, excessive great, O my God; a large
1049 1, 8-13 | utterance to my will. Thus I exchanged with those about me these
1050 4, 15-23| never been so kindled and excited to love him. And yet the
1051 2, 8-16 | itching of my desires by the excitement of accomplices. But since
1052 1, 16-26| beguile." And then mark how he excites himself to lust as by celestial
1053 8, 8-19 | Alypius. "What ails us?" I exclaim: "what is it? what heardest
1054 12, 31-42| meaning so clearly as to exclude the rest, which not being
1055 2, 2-3 | blunt the thorns which were excluded from Thy paradise? For Thy
1056 11, 13-15| 11.13.15 But if any excursive brain rove over the images
1057 8, 7-18 | drew back; refused, but excused not itself. All arguments
1058 5, 10-18| wicked speeches, to make excuses of sins, with men that work
1059 10, 21-30| recalling, I detest and execrate; otherwhiles in good and
1060 13, 34-49| But when Thou begannest to execute in time the things predestinated,
1061 1, 17-27| nothing else whereon to exercise my wit and tongue? Thy praises,
1062 9, 11-27| she held her peace, being exercised by her growing sickness. ~ ~
1063 13, 32-47| thickeneth itself by the exhalation of the waters. We behold
1064 12, 11-14| another, that that could exhibit the vicissitudes of times?
1065 10, 35-55| all those strange sights exhibited in the theatre. Hence men
1066 8, 2-3 | God and His Word. Then to exhort me to the humility of Christ,
1067 11, 2-2 | my pen to utter all Thy exhortations, and all Thy terrors, and
1068 13, 21-29| yet are the faithful also exhorted and blessed by them manifoldly,
1069 9, 3-6 | conversion was of such sort; and exhorting him to become faithful,
1070 3, 9-17 | the doer, and the unknown exigency of the period, severally
1071 11, 14-17| be time) only cometh into existence, because it passeth into
1072 9, 13-37| sigheth after from their Exodus, even unto their return
1073 5, 10-20| narrower, the good more expansive. And from this pestilent
1074 12, 11-12| having neither future to expect, nor conveying into the
1075 5, 6-11 | wherewith I had of so long time expected that man, was delighted
1076 11, 28-37| remembers; that so that which it expecteth, through that which it considereth,
1077 11, 28-37| three things done? For it expects, it considers, it remembers;
1078 5, 13-23| and sent him at the public expense, I made application (through
1079 2, 3-5 | grammar and rhetoric), the expenses for a further journey to
1080 1, 11-18| foresaw; and preferred to expose to them the clay whence
1081 5, 12-22| Rome, to which I was not exposed in Africa. True, those "
1082 6, 1 | having heard divers of them expounded satisfactorily, I referred
1083 5, 3-3 | all valuable learning, and exquisitely skilled in the liberal sciences.
1084 12, 27-37| sudden resolution, did, exterior to itself, as it were at
1085 7, 17-23| senses represent things external, whitherto reach the faculties
1086 9, 2-3 | us the more fiercely, not extinguish us. Nevertheless, because
1087 8, 7-17 | have satisfied, rather than extinguished. And I had wandered through
1088 4, 14-21| pleased others, who highly extolled him, amazed that out of
1089 12, 14-17| others not faultfinders, but extollers of the book of Genesis; "
1090 12, 25-35| true meanings, as may be extracted out of those words, rashly
1091 8, 12-28| where we were sitting, most extremely astonished. I cast myself
1092 5, 7-12 | could neither retreat nor extricate himself fairly. Even for
1093 7, 2-3 | assistance, whereby it might be extricated and purified; and that this
1094 9, 8-18 | of drink, but out of the exuberance of youth, whereby it boils
1095 8, 4-9 | together, each also has more exuberant joy for that they are kindled
1096 9, 12-32| bitterness of sorrow could not exude out of my heart. Then I
1097 6, 5-7 | knowledge, and then so many most fabulous and absurd things were imposed
1098 10, 11-18| other as ago and agito, facio and factito. But the mind
1099 10, 11-18| ago and agito, facio and factito. But the mind hath appropriated
1100 11, 18-23| present. Although when past facts are related, there are drawn
1101 7, 17-23| external, whitherto reach the faculties of beasts; and thence again
1102 6, 4-6 | abideth always, and in no part faileth. But as it happens that
1103 11, 9-11 | yet again mantles over me, fainting from it, through the darkness
1104 2, 6-12 | were Thy creation, Thou fairest of all, Creator of all,
1105 5, 7-12 | retreat nor extricate himself fairly. Even for this I liked him
1106 1, 7-12 | things; who out of Thy own fairness makest all things fair;
1107 6, 12-21| friends, and loved them faithfully. Of whose greatness of spirit
1108 4, 2-2 | sending out some sparks of faithfulness, which I showed in that
1109 8, 2-3 | other philosophers, full of fallacies and deceits, after the rudiments
1110 10, 19-28| itself loses any thing, as falls out when we forget and seek
1111 4, 1-1 | liberal; secretly, with a false-named religion; here proud, there
1112 5, 5-8 | knew not, but which were falsified, with so mad a vanity of
1113 10, 11-18| readily occur to the mind familiarised to them. And how many things
1114 6, 10-17| lived, leaving his excellent family-estate and house, and a mother
1115 9, 4-10 | and temporal, and in their famished thoughts do lick their very
1116 12, 11-14| up and down amid his own fancies?), who but such a one would
1117 7, 5-8 | joint study and conference fanned the flame of their affections
1118 6, 13-23| indeed certain vain and fantastic things, such as the energy
1119 13, 2-2 | an immoderate liberty and far-distant unlikeliness unto Thee; -
1120 6, 6-10 | often marked in them how it fared with me; and I found it
1121 12, 7-7 | unliker Thee; for it is not farness of place. Thou therefore,
1122 8, 10-22| for that they went back farther from Thee, the true Light
1123 12, 29-40| whereof a chest or vessel is fashioned. For such materials do by
1124 6, 6-9 | hast freed it from that fast-holding birdlime of death. How wretched
1125 13, 20-27| who hast refreshed the fastidiousness of mortal senses; that so
1126 13, 23-34| affections, in chastity, in fasting, in holy meditations; and
1127 10, 31-43| carry on a daily war by fastings; often bringing my body
1128 10, 37-62| the sinner's oil to make fat my head. ~ ~
1129 4, 3-5 | nativity-casters, he kindly and fatherly advised me to cast them
1130 9, 10-23| were recruiting from the fatigues of a long journey, for the
1131 2, 3-8 | iniquity burst out as from very fatness. ~ ~
1132 12, 14-17| Thee. But behold others not faultfinders, but extollers of the book
1133 1, 5-6 | cleanse me from my secret faults, and spare Thy servant from
1134 2, 4-9 | not that for which I was faulty, but my fault itself. Foul
1135 8, 6-15 | than to be the Emperor's favourites? and in this, what is there
1136 6, 10-16| powerful senator, to whose favours many stood indebted, many
1137 13, 13-14| over whom being jealous he feareth, lest as the serpent beguiled
1138 11, 31-41| is passing wonderful, and fearfully amazing; in that nothing
1139 2, 6-12 | flung them away, my only feast therein being my own sin,
1140 12, 25-35| imagining otherwise of our fellow servant's mind, than he
1141 10, 42-67| princes of the air, the fellow-conspirators of their pride, by whom,
1142 10, 4-6 | my fellow-citizens, and fellow-pilgrims, who are gone before, or
1143 2, 8-16 | itself, which the company of fellow-sinners occasioned. ~ ~
1144 6, 8-13 | of his acquaintance and fellow-students coming from dinner, and
1145 1, 9-15 | trifling discussion with his fellow-tutor, was more embittered and
1146 2, 4-9 | rob this, some lewd young fellows of us went, late one night (
1147 1, 6-10 | on the strength of weak females. Even then I had being and
1148 6, 9-14 | the leaden gratings which fence in the silversmiths' shops,
1149 6, 2-2 | whereby in good works, so fervent in spirit, she was constant
1150 9, 9-19 | But besides this, he was fervid, as in his affections, so
1151 6, 2-2 | basket with the accustomed festival-food, to be but tasted by herself,
1152 10, 8-12 | sought after, which are fetched, as it were, out of some
1153 3, 1-1 | enjoying; and was with joy fettered with sorrow-bringing bonds,
1154 6, 6-9 | anxieties, and boiling with the feverishness of consuming thoughts. For,
1155 3, 2-2 | whether of old times, or mere fiction) be so acted, that the spectator
1156 1, 18-29| declaiming against his enemy with fiercest hatred, will take heed most
1157 9, 6-14 | made him. He was not quite fifteen, and in wit surpassed many
1158 11, 27-35| then, the first, third, fifth, and seventh, are but single,
1159 9, 11-28| of her sickness, and the fifty-sixth year of her age, and the
1160 4, 15-22| a famous charioteer, or fighter with beasts in the theatre,
1161 13, 24-36| from thus understanding the figurative sayings of Thy Bible. For
1162 13, 24-37| we treat of the words as figuratively spoken (which I rather suppose
1163 4, 9-14 | made heaven and earth, and filleth them, because by filling
1164 6, 7-12 | self-command; whereupon all the filths of the Circensian pastimes
1165 5, 12-22| of things temporal, and filthy lucre, which fouls the hand
1166 1, 1-4 | receivest again what Thou findest, yet didst never lose; never
1167 3, 1-1 | through exceeding vanity, be fine and courtly. I fell headlong
1168 10, 12-19| of architects, the very finest, like a spider's thread;
1169 8, 12-30| 8.12.30 Then putting my finger between, or some other mark,
1170 11, 23-30| although the sun should finish that course in so small
1171 9, 2-3 | down to the abyss; and they fired us so vehemently, that all
1172 11, 30-40| will I stand, and become firm in Thee, in my mould, Thy
1173 7, 9-15 | birthright, for that Thy first-born people worshipped the head
1174 8, 1-1 | anxieties) which were the fittest way for one in my case to
1175 8, 6-15 | palace. But the other two, fixing their heart on heaven, remained
1176 2, 2-2 | and sunk me in a gulf of flagitiousnesses. Thy wrath had gathered
1177 9, 8-18 | poured the wine into the flagon, she sipped a little with
1178 10, 27-38| burstest my deafness. Thou flashedst, shonest, and scatteredst
1179 10, 35-54| do not say, hark how it flashes, or smell how it glows,
1180 1, 10-16| more; the same curiosity flashing from my eyes more and more,
1181 9, 8-18 | condemned and forsook it. As flattering friends pervert, so reproachful
1182 4, 17-31| Church they might securely be fledged, and nourish the wings of
1183 8, 11-26| held me; they plucked my fleshy garment, and whispered softly, "
1184 13, 32-47| air, which bears up the flights of birds, thickeneth itself
1185 2, 4-9 | not for our eating, but to fling to the very hogs, having
1186 13, 14-15| over our inner darksome and floating deep: from Whom we have
1187 8, 6-15 | discourse turned to the flocks in the monasteries, and
1188 9, 12-31| feelings, and refrained my flood of grief, which gave way
1189 13, 13-14| on high, and set open the flood-gates of His gifts, that the force
1190 5, 13-23| dispense unto Thy people the flour of Thy wheat, the gladness
1191 10, 6-8 | nor the fragrant smell of flowers, and ointments, and spices,
1192 10, 33-50| this institution. Thus I fluctuate between peril of pleasure
1193 8, 10-23| one deliberates, one soul fluctuates between contrary wills. ~ ~
1194 7, 5-7 | indeed, as yet unformed, and fluctuating from the rule of doctrine;
1195 7, 7-11 | sufferedst me not by any fluctuations of thought to be carried
1196 5, 6-10 | discourse, and who could speak fluently and in better terms, yet
1197 12, 17-25| restraint of its unlimited fluidness, or received any light from
1198 11, 11-13| eternal, whilst their heart fluttereth between the motions of things
1199 8, 7-18 | to be restrained from the flux of that custom, whereby
1200 2, 2-4 | 2.4 but I, poor wretch, foamed like a troubled sea, following
1201 2, 2-2 | brightness of love from the fog of lustfulness. Both did
1202 7, 6-10 | in the nature of things folk may pretend it to have)
1203 1, 9-15 | doing the like. But elder folks' idleness is called "business";
1204 4, 3-5 | thyself by, so that thou followest this of free choice, not
1205 11, 11-13| to come, and all to come followeth upon the past; and all past
1206 4, 16-26| I was wont, prating and foolishly, to ask them, "Why then
1207 2, 6-13 | all. Yea, ignorance and foolishness itself is cloaked under
1208 1, 17-27| forced to go astray in the footsteps of these poetic fictions,
1209 10, 37-61| of myself is not praised; forasmuch as either those things are
1210 10, 43-70| the wilderness: but Thou forbadest me, and strengthenedst me,
1211 6, 2-2 | Gentiles, she most willingly forbare it: and for a basket filled
1212 8, 3-6 | solemn service of Thy house forceth to tears, when in Thy house
1213 9, 4-9 | many things earnestly and forcibly, in the bitterness of my
1214 11, 18-24| mind, is foretold. Which fore-conceptions again now are; and those
1215 10, 14-21| with joy do I remember my fore-past sorrow, and with sorrow,
1216 11, 18-24| soever then this secret fore-perceiving of things to come be; that
1217 11, 18-24| which the future, being foreconceived in the mind, is foretold.
1218 1, 9-14 | was judged right by our forefathers; and many, passing the same
1219 10, 37-60| when I do without them; foregoing, or not having them. For
1220 1, 14-23| truth, the difficulty of a foreign tongue, dashed, as it were,
1221 3, 8-15 | of any, whether native or foreigner. For any part which harmoniseth
1222 11, 31-41| such vast knowledge and foreknowledge, as to know all things past
1223 13, 18-23| wisdom, which gladdens the forementioned day, are only for the rule
1224 3, 7-13 | because he had been in the forenoon; or when in one house he
1225 6, 11-18| rest 'may be opened'? The forenoons our scholars take up; what
1226 1, 11-18| boyhood! These my mother foresaw; and preferred to expose
1227 5, 3-4 | so it shall be, as it is foreshowed. At these things men, that
1228 9, 5-13 | the rest is a more clear foreshower of the Gospel and of the
1229 11, 18-24| behold, is present; what I foresignify, to come; not the sun, which
1230 11, 2-3 | pages written; nor are those forests without their harts which
1231 11, 18-23| but the action whereof we forethink is not yet, because it is
1232 2, 6-13 | things beloved, and takes forethought for their safety; but to
1233 9, 13-35| mercifully, and from her heart forgave her debtors their debts;
1234 4, 1-1 | their stomachs, they should forge for us Angels and Gods,
1235 5, 3-5 | Thee what is their own, forging lies of Thee who art the
1236 7, 9-14 | lowliness and trouble, and forgiving all our sins. But such as
1237 8, 7-16 | it not, winked at it, and forgot it. ~ ~
1238 13, 1-1 | mercy, Who createdst me, and forgottest not me, forgetting Thee.
1239 12, 12-15| whatsoever further is in the formation of the world, recorded to
1240 2, 2-3 | prescribes, O Lord: who this way formest the offspring of this our
1241 1, 13-21| and all around me thus fornicating there echoed "Well done!
1242 2, 2-2 | and I boiled over in my fornications, and Thou heldest Thy peace,
1243 5, 2-2 | against Thee (because Thou forsakest nothing Thou hast made);
1244 4, 11-16| not forsaken, if itself forsaketh not. Behold, these things
1245 10, 8-13 | inexpressible windings, to be forthcoming, and brought out at need;
1246 3, 8-16 | through envy, as one less fortunate to one more so, or one well
1247 2, 3-6 | narrowness of my parents' fortunes), the briers of unclean
1248 1, 7-11 | and looked bitterly on its foster-brother. Who knows not this? Mothers
1249 8, 6-15 | the city walls, under the fostering care of Ambrose, and we
1250 4, 17-31| instruction; seeing I erred so foully, and with such sacrilegious
1251 5, 12-22| and filthy lucre, which fouls the hand that grasps it;
1252 10, 36-59| ambitions of the world, and the foundations of the mountains tremble.
1253 13, 21-29| that earth which Thou hast founded upon the waters, need that
1254 8, 10-24| have the opportunity; or, fourthly, to commit adultery, if
1255 13, 21-29| feed the dry land; and the fowl, though bred in the sea,
1256 4, 17-31| and bright body, and I a fragment of that body? Perverseness
1257 7, 1-2 | portions of the world, in fragments, large to the large, petty
1258 12, 6-6 | unwonted and jarring, and human frailness would be troubled at. And
1259 10, 34-53| night sigheth after. But the framers and followers of the outward
1260 9, 13-36| interpose himself by force or fraud. For she will not answer
1261 5, 7-12 | Manichee). For their books are fraught with prolix fables, of the
1262 9, 8-18 | it boils over in mirthful freaks, which in youthful spirits
1263 2, 3-5 | father, who was but a poor freeman of Thagaste. To whom tell
1264 3, 12-21| and had not only read, but frequently copied out almost all, their
1265 9, 3-5 | in Thee, with the eternal freshness of Thy Paradise: for that
1266 1, 14-23| learning these things, than a frightful enforcement. Only this enforcement
1267 10, 8-12 | are called for; those in front making way for the following;
1268 9, 6-14 | unwonted venture, to wear the frozen ground of Italy with his
1269 12, 28-38| longer a nest, but deep shady fruit-bowers, see the fruits concealed
1270 13, 24-35| I found it given to the fruit-trees, and plants, and beasts
1271 11, 22-28| and to whom shall I more fruitfully confess my ignorance, than
1272 2, 2-2 | Thee, into more and more fruitless seed-plots of sorrows, with
1273 4, 3-5 | cast them away, and not fruitlessly bestow a care and diligence,
1274 7, 13-19| and stormy wind, which fulfil Thy word; mountains, and
1275 7, 5-7 | see how He environeth and fulfils them. Where is evil then,
1276 5, 13-23| fame thereof, or flowed fuller or lower than was reported;
1277 2, 2-2 | bubblings of youth, mists fumed up which beclouded and overcast
1278 2, 3-6 | of Thyself, through the fumes of that invisible wine of
1279 1, 7-12 | implanting in it all vital functions, Thou commandest me to praise
1280 2, 5-11 | believe it? for as for that furious and savage man, of whom
1281 10, 37-60| are we assailed. Our daily furnace is the tongue of men. And
1282 10, 40-65| spacious chambers, wonderfully furnished with innumerable stores;
1283 1, 7-12 | life to this my infancy, furnishing thus with senses (as we
1284 2, 3-8 | hindrance, but even some furtherance towards attaining Thee.
1285 5, 11-21| 5.11.21 Furthermore, what the Manichees had
1286 6, 10-16| whereby he was hindered more gainful than the power whereby he
1287 13, 27-42| men and infidels (for the gaining and initiating whom, the
1288 11, 20-26| See, I object not, nor gainsay, nor find fault, if what
1289 12, 25-35| what I shall say to this gainsayer, hearken, for before Thee
1290 8, 2-3 | every kind, who fought 'Gainst Neptune, Venus, and Minerva: -
1291 13, 13-14| be perfect; and O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you?
1292 4, 15-23| solidity of truth! Just as the gales of tongues blow from the
1293 3, 3-6 | name was the very badge of gallantry) among whom I lived, with
1294 8, 6-14 | that upon a table for some game, before us, he observed
1295 9, 4-8 | cleaving to us, in female garb with masculine faith, with
1296 8, 6-15 | companions, went out to walk in gardens near the city walls, and
1297 4, 1-1 | and strifes for grassy garlands, and the follies of shows,
1298 13, 18-22| fail not, Thou preparest a garner for our passing years. For
1299 9, 10-23| heart of man. But yet we gasped with the mouth of our heart,
1300 13, 9-10 | up our lowliness from the gates of death. In Thy good pleasure
1301 13, 34-49| subject to them: and Thou gatheredst together the society of
1302 1, 3-3 | not dissipated, but Thou gatherest us. But Thou who fillest
1303 11, 9-11 | which for my punishment gathers upon me. For my strength
1304 8, 11-27| serene, yet not relaxedly, gay, honestly alluring me to
1305 8, 8-19 | away from him, while he, gazing on me in astonishment, kept
1306 11, 18-23| This indeed I know, that we generally think before on our future
1307 10, 23-34| 23.34 But why doth "truth generate hatred," and the man of
1308 5, 7-13 | as I judged fit for his genius. But all my efforts whereby
1309 5, 2-2 | withdrawing themselves from thy gentleness, and stumbling at Thy uprightness,
1310 3, 2-3 | charity; yet had he, who is genuinely compassionate, rather there
1311 4, 17-30| either on rhetoric, or logic, geometry, music, and arithmetic,
1312 9, 7-16 | Bishop where the bodies of Gervasius and Protasius the martyrs
1313 9, 1-1 | cares of canvassing and getting, and weltering in filth,
1314 4, 7-12 | repose. All things looked ghastly, yea, the very light; whatsoever
1315 10, 35-56| did my soul ever consult ghosts departed; all sacrilegious
1316 4, 12-19| chamber, rejoicing as a giant to run his course. For He
1317 7, 5-8 | ran his course through the gilded paths of life, was increased
1318 9, 8-17 | quitting his secular warfare, girded himself to Thine. We were
1319 8, 12-29| house a voice, as of boy or girl, I know not, chanting, and
1320 9, 8-17 | carried at the backs of elder girls. For which reason, and for
1321 1, 10-16| have them attain to be the givers of them. Look with pity,
1322 13, 18-23| brightness of wisdom, which gladdens the forementioned day, are
1323 10, 6-8 | brightness of the light, so gladsome to our eyes, nor sweet melodies
1324 7, 17-23| the flash of one trembling glance it arrived at THAT WHICH
1325 1, 8-13 | expressed by the countenance, glances of the eye, gestures of
1326 8, 9-21 | what end? Let Thy mercy gleam that I may ask, if so be
1327 11, 9-11 | Wisdom, Wisdom's self which gleameth through me; severing my
1328 10, 11-18| are again so buried, and glide back, as it were, into the
1329 10, 34-51| wherever I am through the day, gliding by me in varied forms, soothes
1330 3, 6-10 | before me in those dishes, glittering fantasies, than which better
1331 1, 18-28| life, being bepraised, they gloried? These things Thou seest,
1332 5, 4-7 | only, if, knowing Thee, he glorifies Thee as God, and is thankful,
1333 3, 3-6 | Such is men's blindness, glorying even in their blindness.
1334 9, 7-16 | spread, thence Thy praises glowed, shone; thence the mind
1335 12, 15-21| perpetual noon, it shineth and gloweth from Thee. O house most
1336 9, 10-24| up ourselves with a more glowing affection towards the "Self-same,"
1337 10, 35-54| flashes, or smell how it glows, or taste how it shines,
1338 4, 10-15| unto these things with the glue of love, through the senses
1339 8, 2-4 | saw, and were wroth; they gnashed with their teeth, and melted
1340 7, 5-7 | heart, overcharged with most gnawing cares, lest I should die
1341 7, 5-7 | whereby the soul is thus idly goaded and racked. Yea, and so
1342 6, 6-9 | dragging along, under the goading of desire, the burthen of
1343 5, 2-2 | 2 Let the restless, the godless, depart and flee from Thee;
1344 7, 7-11 | would say unto me, "Whither goest thou, unworthy and defiled?"
1345 13, 15-18| was spread, shall with the goodliness of it pass away; but Thy
1346 11, 2-4 | and precious stones, or gorgeous apparel, or honours and
1347 6, 9-14 | privily bringing a hatchet, got in, unperceived by Alypius,
1348 6, 6-10 | he, by fair wishes, had gotten wine; I, by lying, was seeking
1349 9, 9-22 | requited her parents, had governed her house piously, was well
1350 9, 8-18 | us? Father, mother, and governors absent, Thou present, who
1351 1, 16-25| adultery. And now which of our gowned masters lends a sober ear
1352 5, 6-10 | comely, and the language graceful. But they who held him out
1353 5, 6-11 | and with a kind of natural gracefulness. Is it not thus, as I recall
1354 12, 28-38| around Thee, or being in gradation removed in time and place,
1355 1, 8-13 | various sentences, I collected gradually for what they stood; and
1356 1, 13-22| either buyers or sellers of grammar-learning cry out against me. For
1357 8, 6-13 | Verecundus, a citizen and a grammarian of Milan, and a very intimate
1358 13, 18-22| shall be in the end. Thus grantest Thou the prayers of him
1359 5, 12-22| which fouls the hand that grasps it; hugging the fleeting
1360 4, 1-1 | prizes, and strifes for grassy garlands, and the follies
1361 13, 38-53| shall it be opened. Amen. GRATIAS TIBI DOMINE~.~ ~
1362 6, 9-14 | Alypius, as far as the leaden gratings which fence in the silversmiths'
1363 3, 3-6 | which they disturbed by a gratuitous jeering, feeding thereon
1364 9, 8-18 | to be kept under by the gravity of their elders. And thus
1365 3, 7-13 | should cover his head with greaves, or seek to be shod with
1366 6, 11-18| sticking in the same mire, greedy of enjoying things present,
1367 10, 20-29| neither Greek nor Latin, which Greeks and Latins, and men of all
1368 6, 7-11 | that matter, he began to greet me, come sometimes into
1369 6, 7-12 | scholars before me, he entered, greeted me, sat down, and applied
1370 1, 1-4 | anxiety; repentest, yet grievest not; art angry, yet serene;
1371 3, 11-19| smiling upon her, herself grieving, and overwhelmed with grief.
1372 8, 6-13 | under the burden of which I groaned. Alypius was with me, now
1373 13, 13-14| those which are before, and groaneth being burthened, and his
1374 7, 1-2 | 7.1.2 I then being thus gross-hearted, nor clear even to myself,
1375 13, 32-47| and birds; because the grossness of the air, which bears
1376 9, 12-29| we were assured on good grounds, the testimony of her good
1377 4, 7-12 | I found not. Not in calm groves, not in games and music,
1378 13, 33-48| ending, rising and setting, growth and decay, form and privation.
1379 3, 2-3 | uncleanness, O my soul, under the guardianship of my God, the God of our
1380 11, 2-2 | terrors, and comforts, and guidances, whereby Thou broughtest
1381 6, 7-12 | wit. But Thou, O Lord, who guidest the course of all Thou hast
1382 8, 12-28| the floods of mine eyes gushed out an acceptable sacrifice
1383 7, 13-19| dragons, and all deeps, fire, hail, snow, ice, and stormy wind,
1384 8, 8-20 | hindered. Thus, if I tore my hair, beat my forehead, if locking
1385 6, 8-13 | with a familiar violence haled him, vehemently refusing
1386 8, 8-19 | way and that, a maimed and half-divided will, struggling, with one
1387 13, 20-26| temptations of the world, to hallow the Gentiles in Thy Name,
1388 9, 2-3 | Name's sake which Thou hast hallowed throughout the earth, this
1389 13, 38-53| trust to rest in Thy great hallowing. But Thou, being the Good
1390 4, 6-11 | because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance
1391 9, 13-36| dispensed, by which the hand-writing that was against us is blotted
1392 9, 7-16 | allowed to touch with his handkerchief the bier of Thy saints,
1393 10, 8-13 | time neither tasting nor handling, but remembering only. ~ ~
1394 1, 11-18| of temptation seemed to hang over me after my boyhood!
1395 4, 3-5 | answer should be given, by hap, not by art, corresponding
1396 4, 7-12 | had remained to myself a hapless spot, where I could neither
1397 9, 9-19 | account of her actions, if haply he had overhastily taken
1398 11, 31-41| not so doth any thing happen unto Thee, unchangeably
1399 10, 30-41| difference there is, that when it happeneth otherwise, upon waking we
1400 12, 25-34| 12.25.34 Let no man harass me then, by saying, Moses
1401 10, 8-13 | All these doth that great harbour of the memory receive in
1402 5, 10-19| that sect (Rome secretly harbouring many of them) made me slower
1403 5, 1-1 | out Thy eye, nor can man's hard-heartedness thrust back Thy hand: for
1404 6, 3-3 | or to discuss some of the harder questions; so that his time
1405 5, 8-15 | accusing my treachery and hardheartedness, she betook herself again
1406 3, 2-3 | who is thought to suffer hardship, by missing some pernicious
1407 10, 35-57| to see a dog coursing a hare; but in the field, if passing,
1408 10, 35-54| knowledge. For we do not say, hark how it flashes, or smell
1409 4, 17-30| country, to spend it upon harlotries. For what profited me good
1410 6, 9-15 | likely, not apprehending any harm to his master, to disclose
1411 3, 8-16 | against Thee, who canst not be harmed? But Thou avengest what
1412 13, 21-30| the yoke, the serpents, harmless. For these be the motions
1413 5, 13-23| manner less winning and harmonious, than that of Faustus. Of
1414 12, 11-12| another; one pure mind, most harmoniously one, by that settled estate
1415 3, 8-15 | foreigner. For any part which harmoniseth not with its whole, is offensive.
1416 7, 13-19| own cloudy and windy sky harmonising with it. Far be it then
1417 13, 32-47| so as to be visible and harmonized, yea and the matter of herbs
1418 13, 15-16| of Thy book, that is, Thy harmonizing words, which by the ministry
1419 9, 12-30| she never had heard any harsh or reproachful sound uttered
1420 13, 13-14| after the Living God, as the hart after the water-brooks,
1421 11, 2-3 | those forests without their harts which retire therein and
1422 6, 1-1 | tears, that Thou wouldest hasten Thy help, and enlighten
1423 9, 8-17 | this life. Much I omit, as hastening much. Receive my confessions
1424 13, 21-30| allegory; that is to say, the haughtiness of pride, the delight of
1425 10, 30-41| custom there fixed; which haunt me, strengthless when I
1426 7, 9-15 | image of a calf that eateth hay. These things found I here,
1427 4, 12-19| soul confesseth, and He healeth it, for it hath sinned against
1428 7, 16-22| bread which is pleasant to a healthy palate is loathsome to one
1429 8, 12-28| soul drawn together and heaped up all my misery in the
1430 7, 7-11 | my sight on all sides by heaps and troops, and in thought
1431 12, 18-27| but the subversion of the hearers. But the law is good to
1432 6, 5-7 | had I not believed upon hearsay - considering all this,
1433 6, 2-2 | watery, but unpleasantly heated with carrying about, she
1434 13, 21-29| need of baptism, as the heathen have, and as itself had,
1435 1, 6-7 | gavest them. For they, with a heaven-taught affection, willingly gave
1436 13, 32-47| distill down in dew; and those heavier waters which flow along
1437 9, 12-32| the whole day in secret heavily sad, and with troubled mind
1438 8, 1-1 | fast in my heart, and I was hedged round about on all sides
1439 5, 9-16 | believe it. And now the fever heightening, I was parting and departing
1440 2, 7-15 | forgiven me these so great and heinous deeds of mine. To Thy grace
1441 1, 16-26| 1.16.26 And yet, thou hellish torrent, into thee are cast
1442 3, 7-13 | or seek to be shod with a helmet, and complain that they
1443 13, 17-21| helping them, as we would be helped; if we were in like need;
1444 13, 1-1 | any such good, as to be helpful unto Thee, my Lord and God;
1445 5, 11-21| thereon; for the words of one Helpidius, as he spoke and disputed
1446 13, 17-21| as to relieve the needy; helping them, as we would be helped;
1447 11, 10-12| not, why does He not also henceforth, and for ever, as He did
1448 13, 26-40| communicate with my affliction. Hereat he rejoiceth, hereon feedeth;
1449 1, 18-29| teacher or learner of the hereditary laws of pronunciation will
1450 8, 6-15 | brides, who when they heard hereof, also dedicated their virginity
1451 13, 26-40| affliction. Hereat he rejoiceth, hereon feedeth; because they had
1452 7, 19-25| For there must also be heresies, that the approved may be
1453 8, 3-7 | and other things witness hereunto; and all things are full
1454 | Hereupon
1455 | hers
1456 10, 23-33| falsehood? They will as little hesitate to say "in the truth," as
1457 8, 11-25| touched nor laid hold of it; hesitating to die to death and to live
1458 7, 9-14 | is not there. For Thou hiddest these things from the wise,
1459 3, 9-17 | and still for the time hidest the reason of Thy command,
1460 4, 14-21| dedicate these books unto Hierius, an orator of Rome, whom
1461 4, 14-21| that he pleased others, who highly extolled him, amazed that
1462 12, 2-2 | tongue confesseth unto Thy Highness, that Thou madest heaven
1463 7, 1-2 | which is above the earth, hindereth not the light of the sun
1464 13, 24-35| Thou not thereby give us a hint to understand something?
1465 4, 3-5 | and that, understanding Hippocrates, he could soon have understood
1466 4, 17-31| when little, and even to hoar hairs wilt Thou carry us;
1467 2, 4-9 | but to fling to the very hogs, having only tasted them.
1468 9, 8-18 | to draw wine out of the hogshed, holding the vessel under
1469 8, 5-12 | whereby the mind is drawn and holden, even against its will;
1470 1, 18-28| things Thou seest, Lord, and holdest Thy peace; long-suffering,
1471 11, 22-28| Thee, in His Name, Holy of holies, let no man disturb me.
1472 10, 33-49| feeling our minds to be more holily and fervently raised unto
1473 13, 7-8 | the love of cares, and the holiness of Thine raising us upward
1474 13, 14-15| sound of him that keeps holy-day. And yet again it is sad,
1475 9, 4-12 | all which passed in those holy-days? Yet neither have I forgotten,
1476 10, 35-57| therein. What, when sitting at home, a lizard catching flies,
1477 8, 11-27| yet not relaxedly, gay, honestly alluring me to come and
1478 6, 10-16| who could prefer gold to honesty. His character was tried
1479 13, 19-24| appear, and bring forth the honouring of father and mother, and
1480 12, 22-31| them to be mentioned in the hook of Genesis, but when they
1481 1, 9-15 | lightly of the racks and hooks and other torments (against
1482 10, 30-42| wherein I am still imperfect; hoping that Thou wilt perfect Thy
1483 3, 8-16 | not up against Thee the horns of an unreal liberty, suffering
1484 1, 18-28| younger son look out for horses or chariots, or ships, fly
1485 6, 7-11 | those idle spectacles are hotly followed) had drawn him
1486 13, 18-22| the hungry, and bring the houseless poor to our house. Let us
1487 3, 3-5 | 5 And Thy faithful mercy hovered over me afar. Upon how grievous
1488 3, 2-2 | is from such affections. Howsoever, when he suffers in his
1489 5, 12-22| the hand that grasps it; hugging the fleeting world, and
1490 9, 9-21 | never spoken, whereas to humane humanity, it ought to seem
1491 9, 9-21 | spoken, whereas to humane humanity, it ought to seem a light
1492 7, 7-11 | out of my wound; for Thou "humbledst the proud like one that
1493 4, 1-1 | every where vain. Here, hunting after the emptiness of popular
1494 11, 26-33| than a longer, pronounced hurriedly. And so for a verse, a foot,
1495 5, 8-15 | through my desires, Thou wert hurrying me to end all desire, and
1496 10, 34-53| Glory, do hence also sing a hymn to Thee, and do consecrate
1497 7, 14-20| become the temple of its own idol, to Thee abominable. But
1498 8, 4-9 | or the noble before the ignoble; seeing rather Thou hast
1499 10, 23-34| blind and sick, foul and ill-favoured, wish to be hidden, but
1500 3, 3-6 | those "Subverters" (for this ill-omened and devilish name was the
1501 1, 5-5 | it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole
1502 13, 3-4 | life, which Thou mightest illuminate. But as it had no claim
1503 13, 3-4 | simply, but by beholding the illuminating light, and cleaving to it;
1504 10, 34-52| through great age, with illumined heart, in the persons of
1505 10, 30-41| Yea, so far prevails the illusion of the image, in my soul
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