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conbk12 AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS BOOK TWELVE CHAPTER I My heart is deeply stirred, O Lord, when in this poor life of mine the words of thy Holy Scripture strike upon it.…
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conbk11 AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS BOOK ELEVEN CHAPTER I Is it possible, O Lord, that, since thou art in eternity, thou art ignorant of what I am saying to thee? Or, dost…
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conbk10 AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS BOOK TEN CHAPTER I Let me know thee, O my Knower; let me know thee even as I am known.1 O Strength of my soul, enter it…
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conbk09 AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS BOOK NINE CHAPTER I "O Lord, I am thy servant; I am thy servant and the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast loosed my bonds. I will…
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conbk08 AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS BOOK EIGHT CHAPTER I O my God, let me remember with gratitude and confess to thee thy mercies toward me. Let my bones be bathed in thy…
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conbk07 AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS BOOK SEVEN CHAPTER I Dead now was that evil and shameful youth of mine, and I was passing into full manhood.1 As I increased in years, the…
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conbk06 AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS BOOK SIX CHAPTER I O Hope from my youth,1 where wast thou to me and where hadst thou gone away?2 For hadst thou not created me and…
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conbk05 AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS BOOK FIVE CHAPTER I Accept this sacrifice of my confessions from the hand of my tongue. Thou didst form it and hast prompted it to praise thy…
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conbk04 AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS BOOK FOUR CHAPTER I During this period of nine years, from my nineteenth year to my twenty-eighth, I went astray and led others astray. I was deceived…
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conbk03 AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS BOOK THREE CHAPTER I I came to Carthage, where a caldron of unholy loves was seething and bubbling all around me. I was not in love as…