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2506 10, 34-51| for, and if absent long, saddeneth the mind. ~ ~
2507 10, 33-50| and that mode seems to me safer, which I remember to have
2508 8, 3-7 | triumph. The storm tosses the sailors, threatens shipwreck; all
2509 5, 8-15 | wind blew and swelled our sails, and withdrew the shore
2510 1, 16-26| sight of laws appointing a salary beside the scholar's payments;
2511 1, 11-17| the mark of His cross and salted with His salt. Thou sawest,
2512 5, 3-5 | and righteousness, and sanctification, and was numbered among
2513 13, 36-51| setting; because Thou hast sanctified it to an everlasting continuance;
2514 5, 5-9 | on account of his reputed sanctity, rest my credence upon his
2515 10, 25-36| for Thee? what manner of sanctuary hast Thou builded for Thee?
2516 2, 3-7 | Thy faithful one, Thou sangest in my ears? Nothing whereof
2517 2, 10-18| in the All-Excellent. I sank away from Thee, and I wandered,
2518 8, 8-19 | forsake me so disturbed? We sate down as far removed as might
2519 9, 6-14 | vanished from us. Nor was I sated in those days with the wondrous
2520 1, 12-19| forced me to learn, except to satiate the insatiate desires of
2521 2, 1-1 | youth heretofore, to be satiated in things below; and I dared
2522 10, 6-8 | and there clingeth what satiety divorceth not. This is it
2523 2, 10-18| all pure eyes, and of a satisfaction unsating. With Thee is rest
2524 6, 12-22| the most part the habit of satisfying an insatiable appetite tormented,
2525 4, 3-4 | and "This did Venus, or Saturn, or Mars": that man, forsooth,
2526 8, 4-9 | also for his former name Saul, was pleased to be called
2527 6, 8-13 | he therewith drunk down savageness; nor turned away, but fixed
2528 10, 35-55| beautiful, melodious, fragrant, savoury, soft; but curiosity, for
2529 12, 27-37| thereon, does out of a narrow scantling of language, overflow into
2530 6, 12-22| between his momentary and scarce-remembered knowledge of that life,
2531 10, 34-53| strength for Thee, and not scatter it abroad upon pleasurable
2532 10, 27-38| flashedst, shonest, and scatteredst my blindness. Thou breathedst
2533 3, 2-2 | is this for feigned and scenical passions? for the auditor
2534 9, 8-17 | come from them. And the sceptre of Thy Christ, the discipline
2535 4, 4-7 | me, and we had been both school-fellows and play-fellows. But he
2536 9, 4-7 | the lofty cedars of the Schools, which the Lord hath now
2537 3, 10-18| prophets. And what gained I by scoffing at them, but to be scoffed
2538 6, 10-16| promised; with all his heart he scorned it: threats were held out;
2539 9, 12-33| those of man, who would have scornfully interpreted my weeping.
2540 3, 1-1 | sorrow-bringing bonds, that I might be scourged with the iron burning rods
2541 3, 3-5 | its fruits, for which Thou scourgedst me with grievous punishments,
2542 3, 1-1 | itself forth, desiring to be scraped by the touch of objects
2543 3, 2-4 | fictions should lightly scratch the surface; upon which,
2544 9, 1-1 | weltering in filth, and scratching off the itch of lust. And
2545 4, 3-4 | Mathematicians, I consulted without scruple; because they seemed to
2546 5, 3-4 | like the fishes of the seal they wander over the unknown
2547 13, 23-34| initiated, as Thy mercy searches out in many waters: or in
2548 10, 16-25| brow. For we are not now searching out the regions of heaven,
2549 9, 11-28| her pilgrimage beyond the seas, what was earthly of this
2550 6, 7-12 | pleasanter and plainer, seasoned with biting mockery of those
2551 10, 34-52| light whereof I spake, it seasoneth the life of this world for
2552 10, 7-11 | each their own peculiar seats and offices; which, being
2553 9, 2-4 | rejoice that I had this secondary, and that no feigned, excuse,
2554 3, 6-11 | saying, Eat ye bread of secrecies willingly, and drink ye
2555 11, 2-3 | wouldest Thou have the darksome secrets of so many pages written;
2556 8, 12-29| and in silence read that section on which my eyes first fell:
2557 10, 32-48| And no one ought to be secure in that life, the whole
2558 4, 17-31| of Thy Church they might securely be fledged, and nourish
2559 3, 4-8 | inflamed me. Some there be that seduce through philosophy, under
2560 8, 10-22| perish vain talkers and seducers of the soul: who observing
2561 1, 16-26| Jupiter as his example of seduction. - "Viewing a picture, where
2562 10, 34-52| Such would I be. These seductions of the eyes I resist, lest
2563 5, 6-11 | proved the more pleasing and seductive because under the guidance
2564 2, 2-2 | more and more fruitless seed-plots of sorrows, with a proud
2565 10, 6-9 | are we the God whom thou seekest." And I replied unto all
2566 13, 16-19| Knoweth unchangeably. Nor seemeth it right in Thine eyes,
2567 10, 33-49| them more honour than is seemly, feeling our minds to be
2568 10, 8-15 | surprises me, amazement seizes me upon this. And men go
2569 4, 8-13 | self; and even with the seldomness of these dissentings, to
2570 3, 8-16 | any one false thing is selected therefrom and loved. So
2571 8, 3-7 | against our wills, but even by self-chosen, and pleasure-seeking trouble.
2572 6, 7-12 | shook his mind with a strong self-command; whereupon all the filths
2573 7, 18-24| might go on no further in self-confidence, but rather consent to become
2574 6, 5-7 | which I had read in the self-contradicting philosophers, could wring
2575 4, 2-2 | difference there is betwixt the self-restraint of the marriage-covenant,
2576 2, 3-6 | that invisible wine of its self-will, turning aside and bowing
2577 1, 13-22| Let not either buyers or sellers of grammar-learning cry
2578 8, 1-2 | the goodly pearl, which, selling all that I had, I ought
2579 8, 6-15 | altered from their former selves, did yet bewail themselves (
2580 8, 2-3 | instructor of so many noble Senators, who also, as a monument
2581 5, 6-11 | Orations, a very few books of Seneca, some things of the poets,
2582 10, 8-13 | by the mouth; and by the sensation of the whole body, what
2583 1, 6-10 | make known to others my sensations. Whence could such a being
2584 11, 27-35| syllable by a short, and I sensibly find it to have twice so
2585 7, 19-25| only, nor, with the body, a sensitive soul without a rational,
2586 8, 12-29| instantly at the end of this sentence, by a light as it were of
2587 1, 8-13 | they occurred in various sentences, I collected gradually for
2588 9, 11-27| And having delivered this sentiment in what words she could,
2589 2, 6-13 | unwonted or sudden, or who separateth from Thee what Thou lovest?
2590 13, 20-26| that hath life. For ye, separating the precious from the vile,
2591 12, 22-31| others; as the Cherubim, and Seraphim, and those which the Apostle
2592 8, 12-29| by a light as it were of serenity infused into my heart, all
2593 6, 4-6 | joy I heard Ambrose in his sermons to the people, oftentimes
2594 3, 9-17 | society of men is just which serves Thee? But blessed are they
2595 8, 4-9 | for Thy honour; and become serviceable for the Lord, unto every
2596 10, 31-44| greediness is proffering its services. In this uncertainty the
2597 6, 15-25| no wife, that so by the servitude of an enduring custom, the
2598 10, 31-47| of such nature that I can settle on cutting it off once for
2599 6, 11-18| with the desire of wisdom, settling when I had found her, to
2600 8, 11-25| in my inward parts by a severe mercy, redoubling the lashes
2601 8, 11-25| accusing myself much more severely than my wont, rolling and
2602 1, 19-30| manors and slaves, just as severer punishments displace the
2603 11, 9-11 | which gleameth through me; severing my cloudiness which yet
2604 1, 13-22| of Troy," and "Creusa's shade and sad similitude," were
2605 12, 28-38| longer a nest, but deep shady fruit-bowers, see the fruits
2606 7, 21-27| thing, from the mountain's shaggy top to see the land of peace,
2607 1, 16-26| what God? Great Jove, Who shakes heaven's highest temples
2608 8, 2-4 | bold-faced against vanity, and shame-faced towards the truth, and suddenly
2609 4, 17-31| and with such sacrilegious shamefulness, in the doctrine of piety?
2610 1, 7-12 | forgetfulness. But if I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin
2611 7, 9-15 | nature into idols and divers shapes, into the likeness of the
2612 4, 4-9 | unhappiness; and whatever I had shared with him, wanting him, became
2613 10, 4-6 | the believing sons of men, sharers of my joy, and partners
2614 4, 15-22| be said of an actor, who shares our nature. Do I then love
2615 6, 1-1 | access, as it were, of a sharper fit, which physicians call "
2616 6, 4-5 | hold for certain, the more sharply gnawed my heart, the more
2617 3, 7-12 | was, as it were through sharpness of wit, persuaded to assent
2618 12, 29-40| And who, again, is of so sharpsighted understanding, as to be
2619 10, 28-39| hard thing, and lest it shatter endurance. Is not the life
2620 4, 7-12 | counsel. For I bore about a shattered and bleeding soul, impatient
2621 10, 31-44| therein prepares an excuse to shield itself, glad that it appeareth
2622 6, 11-20| things, and these winds shifted and drove my heart this
2623 12, 6-6 | were not; and this same shifting from form to form, I suspected
2624 10, 2-2 | displeased with myself, Thou shinest out, and art pleasing, and
2625 5, 8-15 | night in a place hard by our ship, where was an Oratory in
2626 8, 3-7 | tosses the sailors, threatens shipwreck; all wax pale at approaching
2627 4, 13-20| body with its whole, or a shoe with a foot, and the like.
2628 10, 34-53| manufactures, in our apparel, shoes, utensils and all sorts
2629 10, 27-38| deafness. Thou flashedst, shonest, and scatteredst my blindness.
2630 6, 7-12 | wretched pastimes; and he shook his mind with a strong self-command;
2631 1, 17-27| have stayed the yet tender shoot of my heart by the prop
2632 3, 7-13 | being allowed to keep open shop, because he had been in
2633 6, 9-14 | fence in the silversmiths' shops, and began to cut away the
2634 11, 28-38| more the expectation being shortened, is the memory enlarged:
2635 8, 8-19 | knowing what good thing I was shortly to become. I retired then
2636 8, 3-6 | back upon the shepherd's shoulder, and the groat is restored
2637 6, 8-13 | Why say more? He beheld, shouted, kindled, carried thence
2638 10, 27-38| all. Thou calledst, and shoutedst, and burstest my deafness.
2639 13, 7-8 | spiritual gifts, he teacheth and showeth unto us a more excellent
2640 8, 7-18 | confuted; there remained a mute shrinking; and she feared, as she
2641 1, 8-13 | possesses, rejects, or shuns. And thus by constantly
2642 3, 1-1 | For this cause my soul was sickly and full of sores, it miserably
2643 10, 41-66| then have I considered the sicknesses of my sins in that threefold
2644 6, 2-2 | wine-bibbing did not lay siege to her spirit, nor did love
2645 10, 35-55| curiosity are all those strange sights exhibited in the theatre.
2646 13, 24-37| not moved but by several significations: thus with human increase
2647 9, 12-29| weeping, was checked and silenced. For we thought it not fitting
2648 3, 7-13 | were judged unrighteous by silly men, judging out of man'
2649 2, 6-13 | cloaked under the name of simplicity and uninjuriousness; because
2650 3, 2-3 | then may he, who truly and sincerely commiserates, wish there
2651 10, 31-47| am not such, for I am a sinful man. Yet do I too magnify
2652 10, 35-56| to whom I owe humble and single-hearted service, by what artifices
2653 7, 21-27| of our Redemption. No man sings there, Shall not my soul
2654 1, 13-22| this was to me a hateful singsong: "the wooden horse lined
2655 4, 3-6 | dearest Nebridius, a youth singularly good and of a holy fear,
2656 13, 9-10 | water poured upon oil, sinks below the oil. They are
2657 9, 8-18 | wine into the flagon, she sipped a little with the tip of
2658 6, 2-2 | those about her by small sips; for she sought there devotion,
2659 9, 2-4 | service, I suffered myself to sit even one hour in the chair
2660 4, 17-28| or whether he stands or sits; or be shod or armed; or
2661 1, 18-29| God, Thou only great, that sittest silent on high and by an
2662 4, 16-27| 4.16.27 I was then some six or seven and twenty years
2663 11, 27-35| long, the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth. Every one of
2664 10, 10-17| touch says, "If it have not size, I handled it not; if I
2665 8, 8-19 | enter, and praised it to the skies. And therein we enter not
2666 4, 3-5 | those days a wise man, very skilful in physic, and renowned
2667 13, 15-16| Thou knowest, how Thou with skins didst clothe men, when they
2668 2, 3-8 | went more slowly in the skirts thereof as she advised me
2669 2, 3-8 | The reins, meantime, were slackened to me, beyond all temper
2670 10, 31-47| held attempered between slackness and stiffness. And who is
2671 9, 12-30| that I paid to her, and her slavery for me? Being then forsaken
2672 7, 6-9 | lineage the most abject, a slavish condition, and every thing
2673 9, 4-10 | where I had sacrificed, slaying my old man and commencing
2674 10, 30-42| pure affections even of a sleeper, the very least influence,
2675 8, 5-12 | to me, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead,
2676 4, 12-19| and bore our death, and slew him, out of the abundance
2677 6, 13-23| showedst her any thing, but slighting them. For she could, she
2678 10, 14-21| come to my mind," and, "It slipped out of my mind," calling
2679 2, 6-13 | injure the sinner? Yea, sloth would fain be at rest; but
2680 10, 3-3 | know the lives of others, slothful to amend their own? Why
2681 13, 21-30| ungoverned wildness of pride, the sluggish voluptuousness of luxury,
2682 10, 34-52| keepest Israel shalt neither slumber nor sleep. ~ ~
2683 9, 12-32| light, hast poured Soft slumbers o'er the night, That to
2684 7, 8-12 | eyesight of my mind, by the smarting anointings of healthful
2685 10, 8-13 | lilies from violets, though smelling nothing; and I prefer honey
2686 10, 42-67| swelling out rather than smiting upon their breasts, and
2687 9, 9-19 | in word. Only when he was smoothed and tranquil, and in a temper
2688 9, 4-7 | straightening my crookedness, and smoothing my rough ways; and how Thou
2689 7, 13-19| and all deeps, fire, hail, snow, ice, and stormy wind, which
2690 7, 5-8 | what, according to his socalled constellations, I thought
2691 3, 8-15 | were those of the men of Sodom: which should all nations
2692 9, 12-32| found my grief not a little softened; and as I was alone in my
2693 12, 25-34| contradiction, pour down a softening dew into my heart, that
2694 8, 11-26| fleshy garment, and whispered softly, "Dost thou cast us off?
2695 10, 16-25| myself; I am become a heavy soil requiring over much sweat
2696 4, 8-13 | refreshed me chiefly was the solaces of other friends, with whom
2697 10, 31-45| strengtheneth me. Behold a soldier of the heavenly camp, not
2698 1, 18-28| committed some barbarism or solecism, being censured, were abashed;
2699 8, 3-6 | found it; and the joy of the solemn service of Thy house forceth
2700 9, 12-29| thought it not fitting to solemnise that funeral with tearful
2701 1, 16-26| such learning; and a great solemnity is made of it, when this
2702 10, 38-63| certain excellency of our own, solicits and collects men's suffrages.
2703 8, 12-28| expressions, I rose from Alypius: solitude was suggested to me as fitter
2704 3, 6-11 | nothing, shadowed out in Solomon, sitting at the door, and
2705 5, 3-6 | discovered not any account of the solstices, or equinoxes, or the eclipses
2706 5, 6-10 | lighted upon, when unable to solve my objections about these
2707 5, 7-12 | despair of his opening and solving the difficulties which perplexed
2708 | somewhere
2709 10, 34-51| gliding by me in varied forms, soothes me when engaged on other
2710 4, 4-9 | and why she disquieted me sorely: but she knew not what to
2711 3, 1-1 | soul was sickly and full of sores, it miserably cast itself
2712 3, 1-1 | was with joy fettered with sorrow-bringing bonds, that I might be scourged
2713 3, 2-3 | yet are wounded with no sorrowfulness. And who is sufficient for
2714 8, 11-25| 8.11.25 Thus soul-sick was I, and tormented, accusing
2715 8, 4-9 | apostles, by whose tongue Thou soundedst forth these words, when
2716 7, 13-19| conceived of all: and with a sounder judgment I apprehended that
2717 9, 9-21 | enmities are breathed out in sour discourses to a present
2718 13, 30-45| otherwhere and from other sources created, for Thee to bring
2719 13, 18-22| goodness into Thy harvest, in sowing whereof, others have laboured,
2720 4, 2-2 | much smoke sending out some sparks of faithfulness, which I
2721 7, 1-2 | of Thee, than that of a sparrow, by how much larger it is,
2722 1, 19-30| from nuts and balls and sparrows, to magistrates and kings,
2723 11, 4-6 | thing, is the voice of the speakers. Thou therefore, Lord, madest
2724 10, 14-22| each into its subordinate species, and by defining it, in
2725 4, 17-28| which I have given some specimens, or under that chief Predicament
2726 1, 13-22| similitude," were the choice spectacle of my vanity. ~ ~
2727 3, 8-16 | pleasure at another's pain, as spectators of gladiators, or deriders
2728 5, 10-18| not turn aside to wicked speeches, to make excuses of sins,
2729 1, 8-13 | more. For I was no longer a speechless infant, but a speaking boy.
2730 1, 14-23| of friends, smiling and sportively encouraging me. This I learned
2731 2, 4-9 | pestilent custom prolonged our sports in the streets till then),
2732 4, 7-12 | and music, nor in fragrant spots, nor in curious banquetings,
2733 13, 15-16| ministry of mortal men Thou spreadest over us. For by their very
2734 5, 4-7 | high it is, or how wide it spreads, than he that can measure
2735 6, 1-1 | fountain of that water, which springeth up unto life everlasting.
2736 4, 15-22| did not hate, I should not spurn and cast from myself? For
2737 4, 12-18| but in Him are they firmly stablished; else would they pass, and
2738 6, 6-9 | break my bones with the staff of Thy correction. ~ ~
2739 3, 2-2 | 3.2.2 Stage-plays also carried me away, full
2740 13, 30-45| Thee, did, in these lower stages of the world, beget and
2741 7, 2-3 | all we that heard it were staggered: "That said nation of darkness,
2742 2, 1-1 | beauty consumed away, and I stank in Thine eyes; pleasing
2743 11, 26-33| and we say "it is a long stanza, because composed of so
2744 11, 26-33| measure we the spaces of stanzas, by the spaces of the verses,
2745 4, 3-6 | haphazard, not of the art of the star-gazers. ~ ~
2746 5, 3-3 | the sand, and measure the starry heavens, and track the courses
2747 4, 10-15| course from their appointed starting-place to the end appointed. For
2748 2, 6-13 | more justly than Thou? Fear startles at things unwonted and sudden,
2749 3, 3-5 | unworthy to he compared to the stateliness of Tully: for my swelling
2750 7, 2-3 | if corruptible, the very statement showed it to be false and
2751 6, 11-19| matter now to obtain some station, and then what should we
2752 8, 2-3 | deserved and obtained a statue in the Roman Forum; he,
2753 3, 2-2 | be moved to passion, he stays intent, and weeps for joy. ~ ~
2754 10, 36-59| for Thy sake, but in Thy stead: and thus having been made
2755 8, 1-1 | certain of Thee, but more steadfast in Thee. But for my temporal
2756 6, 11-19| death uncertain; if it steals upon us on a sudden, in
2757 2, 1 | Lord? Did I wish even by stealth to do contrary to Thy law,
2758 13, 7-8 | desires, downwards to the steep abyss; and how charity raises
2759 4, 9-14 | darkenings of sorrows, that steeping of the heart in tears, all
2760 5, 14-25| upon me, whither I might steer my course.~.
2761 4, 15-23| every wind, but yet was steered by Thee, though very secretly.
2762 6, 12-22| esteemed not slightly, should stick so fast in the birdlime
2763 6, 11-18| now in my thirtieth year, sticking in the same mire, greedy
2764 3, 3-5 | among whom I wandered with a stiff neck, withdrawing further
2765 5, 5-9 | will yet affirm that too stiffly whereof he is ignorant.
2766 4, 16-26| Thou resistedst my vain stiffneckedness, and I imagined corporeal
2767 10, 31-47| attempered between slackness and stiffness. And who is he, O Lord,
2768 11, 11-13| and see how eternity ever still-standing, neither past nor to come,
2769 9, 12-31| 12.31 The boy then being stilled from weeping, Euodius took
2770 4, 8-13 | lie, by whose adulterous stimulus, our soul, which lay itching
2771 5, 12-22| avoid paying their master's stipend, a number of youths plot
2772 12, 12-15| my God, as much as Thou stirrest me up to knock, and as much
2773 3, 6-11 | willingly, and drink ye stolen waters which are sweet:
2774 5, 8-14 | commit, with a wonderful stolidity, punishable by law, did
2775 4, 1-1 | in the workhouse of their stomachs, they should forge for us
2776 11, 2-4 | and silver, and precious stones, or gorgeous apparel, or
2777 3, 3-5 | could enter into it, or stoop my neck to follow its steps.
2778 | Stop
2779 10, 40-65| furnished with innumerable stores; and I considered, and stood
2780 10, 35-57| tolerating people telling vain stories, lest we offend the weak;
2781 10, 40-65| memory revolving some things, storing up others, drawing out others.
2782 8, 6-15 | the waves of his heart, he stormed at himself a while, then
2783 8, 7-16 | 8.7.16 Such was the story of Pontitianus; but Thou,
2784 10, 14-21| belly, where they may be stowed, but cannot taste. Ridiculous
2785 9, 4-7 | of my high imaginations, straightening my crookedness, and smoothing
2786 8, 1-1 | shrunk from going through its straitness. And Thou didst put into
2787 6, 1 | now what things, sounding strangely in the Scripture, were wont
2788 10, 4-5 | Let a brotherly, not a stranger, mind, not that of the strange
2789 3, 3-6 | persecuted the modesty of strangers, which they disturbed by
2790 1, 6-10 | derived any vein, which may stream essence and life into us,
2791 10, 31-45| Him that strengtheneth me. Strengthen me, that I can. Give what
2792 10, 43-70| but Thou forbadest me, and strengthenedst me, saying, Therefore Christ
2793 13, 26-40| suffer want, in Thee Who strengthenest him. For ye Philippians
2794 10, 30-41| there fixed; which haunt me, strengthless when I am awake: but in
2795 8, 11-27| come and doubt not; and stretching forth to receive and embrace
2796 10, 33-50| deception, I err in too great strictness; and sometimes to that degree,
2797 4, 1-1 | and poetic prizes, and strifes for grassy garlands, and
2798 11, 9-11 | which gleams through me, and strikes my heart without hurting
2799 3, 8-16 | that psaltery of often strings, Thy Ten Commandments, O
2800 8, 6-15 | sawest, and his mind was stripped of the world, as soon appeared.
2801 1, 13-21| seeking by the sword a stroke and wound extreme," myself
2802 5, 14-25| spiritual substance, all their strongholds had been beaten down, and
2803 13, 30-45| they, bound down by the structure, might not again be able
2804 8, 5-10 | carnal, the other spiritual, struggle within me; and by their
2805 7, 5-8 | my obstinacy wherewith I struggled against Vindicianus, an
2806 6, 3-3 | he bore within him, what struggles he had against the temptations
2807 8, 8-19 | maimed and half-divided will, struggling, with one part sinking as
2808 5, 8-14 | manners then which, when a student, I would not make my own,
2809 4, 17-30| difficulty, even by the studious and talented, until I attempted
2810 8, 2-4 | the holy Scripture, most studiously sought and searched into
2811 7, 5-8 | to them who spake it, who stumbled upon it, through their oft
2812 1, 9-15 | affection (for a sort of stupidity will in a way do it); but
2813 3, 2-2 | own person, it uses to be styled misery: when he compassionates
2814 9, 12-32| and cower, And sorrows be subdu'd." - ~ ~
2815 9, 4-7 | ways; and how Thou also subduedst the brother of my heart,
2816 8, 2-3 | the yoke of humility, and subduing his forehead to the reproach
2817 10, 31-43| often bringing my body into subjection; and my pains are removed
2818 13, 22-32| also, which Thou presently subjoinedst, saying, But be ye transformed
2819 13, 26-39| supplied his wants. Therefore subjoins he, not that I speak in
2820 12, 15-19| that there is a certain sublime creature, with so chaste
2821 3, 7-14 | far more excellently and sublimely contain in one all those
2822 7, 9-14 | lofty walk of some would-be sublimer learning, hear not Him,
2823 1, 20-31| I sought for pleasures, sublimities, truths, and so fell headlong
2824 11, 13-16| all things past, by the sublimity of an ever-present eternity;
2825 7, 21-27| there, Shall not my soul be submitted unto God? for of Him cometh
2826 10, 14-22| by dividing each into its subordinate species, and by defining
2827 12, 8-8 | changeable world consists, but subsists not; whose very changeableness
2828 13, 13-14| beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so their minds should be
2829 12, 18-27| profitable to nothing, but the subversion of the hearers. But the
2830 3, 3-6 | Subverters"? themselves subverted and altogether perverted
2831 4, 10-15| but by passing away and succeeding, they together complete
2832 12, 12-15| of such nature, that the successive changes of times may take
2833 11, 7-9 | was spoken was not spoken successively, one thing concluded that
2834 13, 27-42| refreshment, or otherwise succour Thy servant with something
2835 6, 9-15 | forthwith, O Lord, Thou succouredst his innocency, whereof Thou
2836 1, 6-7 | For then I knew but to suck; to repose in what pleased,
2837 4, 1-1 | the best, but an infant sucking the milk Thou givest, and
2838 13, 15-17| of the mouth of babes and sucklings. For we know no other books,
2839 9, 9-22 | occasion of Thy own gift Thou sufferest to speak), us, who before
2840 12, 15-19| dost show Thyself, and sufficest him; and therefore doth
2841 13, 8-9 | of Thy light, dost Thou sufficiently reveal how noble Thou madest
2842 5, 11-21| oppressed and in a manner suffocated by those "masses"; panting
2843 10, 38-63| solicits and collects men's suffrages. It tempts, even when it
2844 10, 10-17| recesses, that had not the suggestion of another drawn them forth
2845 13, 24-36| suppress, what this lesson suggests to me. For it is true, nor
2846 12, 4-4 | this beautiful world) to be suitably intimated unto men, by the
2847 9, 2-4 | troubled me that in this very summer my lungs began to give way,
2848 9, 13-36| was triumphed over, who summing up our offences, and seeking
2849 12, 16-23| placing it, as we, on the summit of authority to be followed,
2850 9, 13-36| thought to have her body sumptuously wound up, or embalmed with
2851 11, 23-30| make a day, if between one sun-rise and another there were but
2852 13, 15-18| let them praise Thee, the supercelestial people, Thine angels, who
2853 13, 9-10 | but if the unchangeable supereminence of Divinity above all things
2854 13, 24-37| which doth not, surely, superfluously ascribe this benediction
2855 1, 6-9 | temporal. Say, Lord, to me, Thy suppliant; say, all-pitying, to me,
2856 12, 27-37| is more plentiful, and supplies a tide for more streams
2857 4, 16-24| other thing: and this I supported by corporeal examples. And
2858 1, 1-4 | gathering, yet nothing lacking; supporting, filling, and overspreading;
2859 11, 23-30| that a double time; even supposing the sun to run his round
2860 13, 24-36| not so in vain; nor will I suppress, what this lesson suggests
2861 4, 4-8 | all astonished and amazed, suppressed all my emotions till he
2862 10, 31-45| hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness. Drunkenness
2863 8, 1-2 | longer in that vanity; I had surmounted it; and by the common witness
2864 12, 15-22| good to cleave fast to God, surpasses all extension, and all revolving
2865 11, 13-16| ever-present eternity; and surpassest all future because they
2866 9, 4-11 | up in victory? And Thou surpassingly art the Self-same, Who art
2867 10, 8-15 | A wonderful admiration surprises me, amazement seizes me
2868 1, 18-29| standing before a human judge, surrounded by a human throng, declaiming
2869 12, 6-6 | I longed to know, not to suspect only.-If then my voice and
2870 3, 1-1 | burning rods of jealousy, and suspicions, and fears, and angers,
2871 5, 6-10 | another sort of people were suspicious even of truth, and refused
2872 4, 3-6 | authority of the authors swaying me yet more, and as yet
2873 9, 6-14 | quick by the voices of Thy sweet-attuned Church! The voices flowed
2874 8, 6-15 | and their holy ways, a sweet-smelling savour unto Thee, and the
2875 4, 5-10 | and complaints? Doth this sweeten it, that we hope Thou hearest?
2876 2, 6-12 | came within my mouth, what sweetened it was the sin. And now,
2877 9, 1-1 | them enteredst in Thyself, sweeter than all pleasure, though
2878 9, 10-23| then together, alone, very sweetly; and forgetting those things
2879 1, 14-23| like fictions, and is most sweetlyvain, yet was he bitter to my
2880 9, 1-1 | become to me, to want the sweetnesses of those toys! and what
2881 10, 40-65| these lower things, and am swept back by former custom, and
2882 9, 10-25| strained ourselves, and in swift thought touched on that
2883 3, 6-11 | from the very husks of the swine, whom with husks I fed.
2884 3, 3-5 | to be a little one; and, swollen with pride, took myself
2885 9, 11-27| one day she fell into a swoon, and was for a while withdrawn
2886 5, 13-23| however knowing it) that Symmachus, then prefect of the city,
2887 2, 1 | things; and in bodily touch, sympathy hath much influence, and
2888 4, 14-21| him, amazed that out of a Syrian, first instructed in Greek
2889 12, 20-29| of all these then, he taketh one, who saith, In the Beginning
2890 9, 6-14 | admirable, I found in him. That talent struck awe into me. And
2891 4, 17-30| even by the studious and talented, until I attempted to explain
2892 7, 5-8 | a young man of admirable talents; the first vehemently affirming,
2893 1, 14-23| classics, which have the like tales? For Homer also curiously
2894 8, 10-22| presence, O God, as perish vain talkers and seducers of the soul:
2895 10, 4-5 | strange children, whose mouth talketh of vanity, and their right
2896 5, 7-12 | he was not one of those talking persons, many of whom I
2897 10, 36-58| pride with Thy fear, and tame my neck to Thy yoke. And
2898 9, 4-7 | by what inward goads Thou tamedst me; and how Thou hast evened
2899 9, 6-14 | Sacraments; and a most valiant tamer of the body, so as, with
2900 13, 23-34| living soul, living by the taming of the affections, in chastity,
2901 2, 2-2 | heldest Thy peace, O Thou my tardy joy! Thou then heldest Thy
2902 1, 17-27| dotages I wasted it. For a task was set me, troublesome
2903 10, 8-13 | avenue of the nostrils; all tastes by the mouth; and by the
2904 10, 8-13 | rugged, at the time neither tasting nor handling, but remembering
2905 5, 9-17 | Thy church, not for idle tattlings and old wives' fables; but
2906 9, 8-18 | mistress, when alone with her, taunted her with this fault, with
2907 12, 26-36| sayings of false and proud teachings. I should have desired verily,
2908 9, 2-2 | sight, not tumultuously to tear, but gently to withdraw,
2909 9, 12-29| solemnise that funeral with tearful lament, and groanings; for
2910 9, 7-15 | should wax faint through the tediousness of sorrow: and from that
2911 7, 7-11 | What were the pangs of my teeming heart, what groans, O my
2912 13, 29-44| and with a strong voice tellest Thy servant in his inner
2913 10, 3-4 | whereby they are good, telleth them that in my confessions
2914 7, 7-11 | me. And this was the true temperament, and middle region of my
2915 13, 24-37| to affections formed unto temperance, as in the living soul.
2916 1, 7-11 | tolerated now, the very same tempers are utterly intolerable
2917 13, 20-28| profoundly curious, and tempestuously swelling, and restlessly
2918 9, 8-17 | hours wherein they were most temporately fed at their parents' table,
2919 10, 34-53| meaning, have men added to tempt their own eyes withal; outwardly
2920 2, 4-9 | vineyard, laden with fruit, tempting neither for colour nor taste.
2921 10, 38-63| collects men's suffrages. It tempts, even when it is reproved
2922 13, 15-18| our flesh, and He spake us tenderly, and kindled us, and we
2923 9, 12-33| conversation towards Thee, her holy tenderness and observance towards us,
2924 2, 6-13 | whither, or by whom? The tendernesses of the wanton would fain
2925 11, 14-17| time is, but because it is tending not to be? ~ ~
2926 13, 9-10 | but to his own place. Fire tends upward, a stone downward.
2927 6, 4-5 | doctrine maintained any tenet which should confine Thee,
2928 11, 27-34| soundeth in one continued tenor without any interruption;
2929 1, 16-26| in that passage, unless Terence had brought a lewd youth
2930 10, 31-43| weakness, our calamity is termed gratification. ~ ~
2931 12, 25-34| partake of it, warning us terribly, not to account it private
2932 11, 2-2 | exhortations, and all Thy terrors, and comforts, and guidances,
2933 8, 2-3 | translated into Latin, he testified his joy that I had not fallen
2934 2, 7-15 | will love Thee, O Lord, and thank Thee, and confess unto Thy
2935 9, 8-17 | Receive my confessions and thanksgivings, O my God, for innumerable
2936 3, 8-16 | false thing is selected therefrom and loved. So then by a
2937 13, 26-40| but ye only. For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto
2938 13, 32-47| up the flights of birds, thickeneth itself by the exhalation
2939 13, 19-24| Go, root up the spreading thickets of covetousness; sell that
2940 2, 4-9 | through want. Yet I lusted to thieve, and did it, compelled by
2941 5, 10-20| which they called earth, or thin and subtile (like the body
2942 8, 11-26| violent habit saying to me, "Thinkest thou, thou canst live without
2943 6, 2-2 | O Lord my God, and thus thinks my heart of it in Thy sight,
2944 8, 10-24| both be open on one day; or thirdly, to rob another's house,
2945 3, 6-10 | shining. But I hungered and thirsted not even after those first
2946 12, 11-13| she understand, if she now thirsts for Thee, if her tears be
2947 6, 11-18| And lo, I was now in my thirtieth year, sticking in the same
2948 4, 8-13 | tongue, the eyes, and a thousand pleasing gestures, were
2949 6, 12-22| chain, was amazed at my thraldom; and through that amazement
2950 10, 12-19| finest, like a spider's thread; but those are still different,
2951 1, 5-5 | art wroth with me, and threatenest me with grievous woes? Is
2952 9, 11-28| year of her age, and the three-and-thirtieth of mine, was that religious
2953 10, 41-66| sicknesses of my sins in that threefold concupiscence, and have
2954 3, 8-16 | one more so, or one well thriven in any thing, to him whose
2955 10, 36-59| who purposed to set his throne in the north, that dark
2956 12, 22-31| Apostle distinctly speaks of, Thrones, Dominions, Principalities,
2957 10, 35-57| and is overcharged with throngs of this abundant vanity,
2958 8, 7-16 | over against myself, and thrustedst me before my eyes, that
2959 4, 12-19| of His own life: and He thundered, calling aloud to us to
2960 1, 16-25| read in thee of Jove the thunderer and the adulterer? both,
2961 10, 36-59| to the humble: yea, Thou thunderest down upon the ambitions
2962 8, 2-3 | aged Victorinus had with thundering eloquence so many years
2963 9, 2-2 | though advising for us, would thwart, and would out of love devour
2964 13, 38-53| be opened. Amen. GRATIAS TIBI DOMINE~.~ ~
2965 9, 8-18 | sipped a little with the tip of her lips; for more her
2966 13, 1-1 | as though Thou wouldest tire in working; or lest Thy
2967 4, 11-16| soul, at least now thou art tired out with vanities. Entrust
2968 10, 35-54| desire, veiled under the title of knowledge and learning,
2969 10, 34-52| 34.52 O Thou Light, which Tobias saw, when, these eyes closed,
2970 6, 6-9 | as those wherein I then toiled dragging along, under the
2971 3, 6-11 | down to the depths of hell! toiling and turmoiling through want
2972 9, 9-19 | never been heard, nor by any token perceived, that Patricius
2973 1, 7-11 | years increase; for, though tolerated now, the very same tempers
2974 10, 35-57| do we begin as if we were tolerating people telling vain stories,
2975 9, 9-21 | seem a light thing not to toment or increase ill will by
2976 7, 18-24| allaying their swelling, and tomenting their love; to the end they
2977 1, 9-14 | might prosper, and excel in tongue-science, which should serve to the "
2978 4, 4-7 | by wonderful means; Thou tookest that man out of this life,
2979 7, 21-27| from the mountain's shaggy top to see the land of peace,
2980 9, 2-3 | burned up that our heavy torpor, that we should not sink
2981 4, 4-9 | him, became a distracting torture. Mine eyes sought him every
2982 8, 8-19 | thoroughly; not to turn and toss, this way and that, a maimed
2983 10, 27-38| hunger and thirst. Thou touchedst me, and I burned for Thy
2984 8, 6-15 | Thine, were building the tower at the necessary cost, the
2985 6, 14-24| especially Romanianus our townsman, from childhood a very familiar
2986 4, 3-6 | Thou conveyedst to me, and tracedst in my memory, what I might
2987 11, 18-23| through the senses left as traces in the mind. Thus my childhood,
2988 5, 3-3 | the starry heavens, and track the courses of the planets. ~ ~
2989 7, 6-10 | dotards (who lived by such a trade, and whom I longed to attack,
2990 3, 4-8 | and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments
2991 3, 2-2 | sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself
2992 1, 17-27| Scriptures; so had it not trailed away amid these empty trifles,
2993 12, 27-37| lest they who go by the way trample on the unfledged bird, and
2994 6, 10-16| threats were held out; he trampled upon them: all wondering
2995 9, 9-19 | when he was smoothed and tranquil, and in a temper to receive
2996 9, 4-8 | masculine faith, with the tranquillity of age, motherly love, Christian
2997 1, 16-25| These were Homer's fictions, transferring things human to the gods;
2998 10, 42-67| none. For the devil it was, transforming himself into an Angel of
2999 1, 10-16| Lord my God, I sinned in transgressing the commands of my parents
3000 12, 11-11| because such motion is transgression and sin; and that no man'
3001 4, 12-18| back into your heart, ye transgressors, and cleave fast to Him
3002 9, 10-25| whatsoever exists only in transition, since if any could hear,
3003 10, 9-16 | For those things are not transmitted into the memory, but their
3004 12, 4-4 | other higher parts are, transparent all and shining. Wherefore
3005 10, 31-47| Lord, who is not some whit transported beyond the limits of necessity?
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