Book, Chapter

 1     Int       |            his episcopal duties he began his Confessions, completing
 2       1, VI   |       nothing more.~8. Afterward I began to laugh - at first in my
 3       1, IX   |           help us. Thus as a boy I began to pray to thee, my Help
 4       3, III  |         having deserted thee, then began to drag me down into the
 5       3, IV   |          immortality of wisdom and began now to arise that I might
 6       4, IV   |          those years, when I first began to teach rhetoric in my
 7       5, III  | injunctions of the philosophers, I began to compare some of their
 8       5, VII  |            believed him eminent, I began to despair of his being
 9       5, VII  |          that puzzled me. And so I began to occupy myself with him
10       5, VII  |       willing nor witting it - now began to loosen the snare in which
11       5, X    |        from that false doctrine, I began to hold more loosely and
12       5, XII  |           be known. And lo, I then began to learn that other offenses
13       5, XIII |          good bishop should. And I began to love him, of course,
14       6, V    |          from this time forward, I began to prefer the Catholic doctrine.
15       6, VII  |           s will in the matter, he began to be friendly and to visit
16       6, VII  |            consented. Thus Alypius began again to hear my lectures
17       6, IX   |           the silversmith shop and began to hack away at the lead
18       6, IX   |       heard the silversmiths below began to call to each other in
19       6, XII  |           spoke thus, then he also began to wish to be married, not
20       6, XIV  |           undisturbed. But when we began to reflect whether this
21       6, XV   |      ceased to burn and throb, and began to fester, and was more
22       6, VI   |           For as soon as the women began to be in labor, they each
23       6, VI   |        thus made in my darkness, I began to consider other implications
24       6, XXI  |       rejoice with trembling. So I began, and I found that whatever
25       7, VI   |            of Anthony! One of them began to read it, to marvel and
26       7, VI   |          So both became thine, and began to “build a tower”, counting
27       7, XII  |   Immediately I ceased weeping and began most earnestly to think
28       7, XII  |        something else for a mark I began - now with a tranquil countenance -
29       8, I    |           to do what I willed, and began to will to do what thou
30       8, II   |            knowest, my God, that I began to rejoice that I had this
31       8, VII  |           the time that the custom began, after the manner of the
32       8, XII  |            took up the Psalter and began to sing, with the whole
33      10, VI   |            forth and died away; it began and ended. The syllables
34      10, XXIV |       moving from the time when it began to be moved until it stopped.
35      10, XXIV |           if I did not see when it began to be moved, and if it continued
36      10, XXIV |        except from the time when I began to see it until I stopped.
37      10, XXVII|           from the instant when it began to sound, down to the final
38      12, III  |           neither, when it already began to exist, did it merit from
39      12, XXII |            living ill; and when we began to be “a living soul” by