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1 Pref, 1 | be strange if the recent years of upheaval in Spain did
2 Pref, 2 | contact with her over many years. A woman who made her decisions
3 Pref, 4 | use of it. For over twenty years I have been in constant
4 Pref, 4 | he had lived for so many years in St. Teresa's own Castile,
5 Outl, 0 | cf. n. 79. "It is forty years since this nun took the
6 Outl, 0 | 1538 (Autumn: "before two years had passed": L V). Health
7 Outl, 0 | illness) I suffered for three years" (L V). The effects of the
8 Outl, 0 | conversion" (after "nearly twenty years on that stormy sea": L VIII:
9 Outl, 0 | Jesus ("after almost twenty years' experience of prayer":
10 Outl, 0 | Avila ("The most restful years of my life": F I).~1562~
11 Intr, 0 | for a hundred and twenty years. Not until 1851, when the
12 Intr, 0 | persecutions of the early years of the nineteenth century
13 Intr, 0 | edition reprinted, and ten years later came the edition of
14 Intr, 0 | as early as 1611; twelve years later, Sir Tobias Mathew'
15 Unic, 1 | suppose, about six or seven years old. It was a help to me
16 Unic, 1 | of a person advanced in years. She was a very tranquil
17 Unic, 1(62) | to Rodrigo, who was four years her senior. He emigrated
18 Unic, 1(62) | America in 1535 and died two years later fighting the Indians
19 Unic, 1 | Lord that in my earliest years I should receive a lasting
20 Unic, 1 | mother died, I was twelve years of age or a little less.64
21 Unic, 2 | sinful, lasted for many years: I see now how wrong they
22 Unic, 2(69) | a foundation some twenty years old situated outside the
23 Unic, 4(79) | IV (p. 319): "It is forty years since this nun took the
24 Unic, 4 | by me for almost twenty years, during which time I made
25 Unic, 4 | sought one for fully twenty years subsequently to the time
26 Unic, 4 | this time I was not twenty years old,82 I seemed to have
27 Unic, 4 | persevere during the eighteen years for which I had to bear
28 Unic, 4 | meditate. During all these years, except after communicating,
29 Unic, 5 | prayer; for, before two years had passed, I myself had
30 Unic, 5 | this I suffered for three years, as I shall now relate.~
31 Unic, 5 | for more than seventeen years, until a Dominican Father,84
32 Unic, 5 | matter: for nearly seven years he had been in a most perilous
33 Unic, 5 | been doing during those years. He was amazed at himself
34 Unic, 6 | continued for nearly three years. When I began to get about
35 Unic, 6 | themselves to him. For some years now, I think, I have made
36 Unic, 6 | livest in me.93 For some years, so far as I can see, Thou
37 Unic, 6 | certain extent, during these years, in many ways, by experience --
38 Unic, 7 | now more than twenty-six years ago, I seem to have Him
39 Unic, 7 | same way; and I spent many years in this pestilential pastime,
40 Unic, 7 | exercise that in five or six years (I think it must have been96)
41 Unic, 7 | In particular, for twenty years I suffered from morning
42 Unic, 7 | been free for quite eight years from the paralysis and the
43 Unic, 7 | been his confessor for some years and spoke highly of his
44 Unic, 7 | thousand vanities. I spent many years in this way, and now I am
45 Unic, 7 | occasions of sin during these years from which God delivered
46 Unic, 7 | bestow upon me during these years? And how, at the very time
47 Unic, 8 | I spent nearly twenty years on that stormy sea, often
48 Unic, 8 | month, much less for so many years. Nevertheless, I can see
49 Unic, 8 | true that, during these years, there were many months --
50 Unic, 8 | eighteen of the twenty-eight years which have gone by since
51 Unic, 8 | world. During the remaining years, of which I have still to
52 Unic, 8 | over a period of several years, I was more occupied in
53 Unic, 8 | not remain so for all the years I did after having received
54 Unic, 9 | For many years, on most nights before I
55 Unic, 9 | say, during these latter years, He gave me consolations
56 Unic, 10 | spiritual lives for many years; and they have seen that
57 Unic, 10 | that in the twenty-seven years during which I have been
58 Unic, 11 | have reached in seventeen years. He prepared himself better
59 Unic, 11 | I endured them for many years; and, when I was able to
60 Unic, 11 | none to me after so many years?" Let us believe that it
61 Unic, 12 | our human efforts, in many years. To keep the faculties of
62 Unic, 12 | I spent a good many years doing a great deal of reading
63 Unic, 13 | coward, go as far in many years as the courageous soul can
64 Unic, 13 | So, over a period of many years, only three persons derived
65 Unic, 13 | the course of two or three years, as I shall afterwards relate.
66 Unic, 13 | by her director for eight years; he would not allow her
67 Unic, 13 | many such; and for some years past, feeling a greater
68 Unic, 14 | might say, however many years I may have spent in prayer.
69 Unic, 16 | some five, or perhaps six, years since the Lord granted me
70 Unic, 17 | it is to live a thousand years, that is its desire also.
71 Unic, 17 | understanding for as much as twenty years, this heavenly Gardener
72 Unic, 17 | to do so even after many years, whereas in this short space
73 Unic, 17 | myself much fatigue for many years, is the one I spoke of when
74 Unic, 19 | been more than twenty-one years ago), I never swerved from
75 Unic, 20(159)| 1510, and reprinted five years later, in a volume containing
76 Unic, 21 | and certified by the many years that have passed since some
77 Unic, 21 | those who work hard for many years, in the ways described by
78 Unic, 21 | likely to do as it is in ten years.~
79 Unic, 22 | after it has spent some years in the Purgative life and
80 Unic, 23 | believe, for nearly forty years -- perhaps two or three
81 Unic, 23 | perhaps two or three years less -- and the life he
82 Unic, 23 | himself, he said, had for many years been troubled by some quite
83 Unic, 23 | If after almost twenty years' experience of prayer I
84 Unic, 24 | Duke of Gand'a but some years before had given up everything
85 Unic, 24 | been making for so many years, I had never been able to
86 Unic, 25 | resistance for almost two years and sometimes I still try
87 Unic, 25 | such voices two or three years beforehand and all that
88 Unic, 25 | have spoken, when, many years ago, I saw Christ.198 How
89 Unic, 25 | went on for perhaps two years, during the whole of which
90 Unic, 25 | great deal, and for several years they were such a trial to
91 Unic, 26 | to happen three or four years hence: there have been many
92 Unic, 27 | At the end of two years, during the whole of which
93 Unic, 27 | knowledge, for forty-seven years! I will say something about
94 Unic, 27 | I think it was for forty years that he told me he had slept
95 Unic, 27 | feet long. During all these years, how ever hot the sun or
96 Unic, 27 | that he once spent three years in a house of his Order
97 Unic, 27 | was his practice for many years. He told me that it was
98 Unic, 28 | For, if I were to spend years and years imagining how
99 Unic, 28 | were to spend years and years imagining how to invent
100 Unic, 28 | have said, I have for many years been in touch with men of
101 Unic, 28(223)| Father was only twenty-five years of age when he became St.
102 Unic, 28 | imperfectly. For the three years and more during which he
103 Unic, 28(224)| period was actually of six years, but the author naturally
104 Unic, 29 | For two years and a half things went on
105 Unic, 29 | must now be more than three years since He took it from me
106 Unic, 30 | assured that for twenty years he continuously wore a shirt
107 Unic, 31 | me who for two and a half years had been living in mortal
108 Unic, 31 | through as much for many years longer to set that soul
109 Unic, 31 | attended by many dangers. A few years ago, I believed, not merely
110 Unic, 32 | I were to live for many years, I believe it would be impossible
111 Unic, 32 | though it happened nearly six years ago, I still am as I write:
112 Unic, 33 | here he stayed for over two years.266 He was then commanded
113 Unic, 34 | arrived with whom for many years I had been in communication
114 Unic, 34 | seen one another for many years. I began to tell him that
115 Unic, 34 | wholly to God. For some years now I have felt like this --
116 Unic, 34 | contemplation in twenty years than to others in one: His
117 Unic, 34 | think that in the course of years we are bound to understand
118 Unic, 34 | the Lord made to me three years before they became known;
119 Unic, 34 | said. Some four or five years after she had adopted these
120 Unic, 34 | glory. During all those years between the time when the
121 Unic, 35 | practised it for so many years, he knew how much wealth
122 Unic, 36 | I fancy for over two years.~
123 Unic, 36 | continuously for over two years -- all these things fled
124 Unic, 36 | moment of the twenty-eight years and more that have gone
125 Unic, 36 | what happened in the two years between the beginning of
126 Unic, 36 | which we have had during the years we have been in this house,
127 Unic, 37(334)| believed himself to be two years younger than he was -- these
128 Unic, 38 | this came true, for a few years later he died, and both
129 Unic, 38 | both his death and the last years of his life were marked
130 Unic, 38 | died after leading for many years, as I knew, a very bad life.
131 Unic, 38 | very bad life. But for two years he had been ill and in some
132 Unic, 38 | been a superior for twenty years -- this always causes me
133 Unic, 38 | about eighteen to twenty years old. She had always had
134 Unic, 39 | progress by the number of years during which we have been
135 Unic, 39 | than to another in many years. This is something which
136 Unic, 39 | considers here is not the years which people have spent
137 Unic, 39 | months as another in twenty years, since, as I say, the Lord
138 Unic, 39 | of girls, quite young in years.352 God touches their hearts
139 Unic, 39 | consummated in me during the many years that have elapsed since
140 Unic, 39 | been professed for many years, as well as others who have
141 Unic, 39 | others who have spent long years in the practice of prayer,
142 Unic, 39 | which has continued for many years, but which, neither first
143 Unic, 39 | dangerous to keep counting the years during which we have practised
144 Unic, 39 | that the mere number of years he has practised prayer
145 Unic, 39 | should forget the number of years we have served Him, for
146 Unic, 40 | known (which He told me some years ago would happen), I was
147 Unic, 40 | which I have prayed for many years. And as no works which I