St. AugustineRobert Carter & Brothers, 1859 - 305 pages |
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afterwards Alypius Ambrose Augus Aurelius bird-lime bishop blessed breathe Carthage Christ Christian Church command dark day-dawn death desire Divine doth ears eternal evil eyes faith fear flesh give glory God's grace groans happy hath hear heard heart heaven heavenly Hippo holy hope Jesus kindled King's remembrancer knew learned light live Lord Manichean Manichees mercy Milan mind Monica mother ness never night once pain passed Patricius Pelagius Pontitianus Possidius praise pray prayers pride profes rejoicing Rome says Augustine secret seemed severe mercy shew sigh Silvio Pellico Simplicianus sins snare sorrow sought soul spake speak spirit star by star sweet teaching tears Thegaste Thine things Thou thou art Thou hast thought thyself tion tongue truth turn unto Thee utter vanity Victorinus voice weary weeping whence wherein whisper whither wizzard wonder wont words wretched writes youth
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Page 166 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 160 - My panting side was charged, when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. There was I found by one who had himself Been hurt by the' archers. In his side he bore, And in his hands and feet, the cruel scars. With gentle force soliciting the darts, He drew them forth, and heal'd and bade me live.
Page 285 - FATHER, I will that they whom thou hast given me be with me where I am : that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me : for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
Page 23 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days. The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Page 225 - But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child : for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
Page 166 - Take up and read; take up and read." Immediately my countenance was changed, and I began most earnestly to consider whether it was usual for children in any kind of game to sing such words; nor could I remember ever to have heard the like. So...
Page 115 - It is impossible but that offences will come : but woe unto him, through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these liftle ones.
Page 38 - ... saw and remembered that they called what they would point out by the name they uttered. And that they meant this thing and no other was plain from the motion of their body, the natural language, as it were, of all nations, expressed by the countenance, glances of the eye, gestures of the limbs, and tones of the voice, indicating the affections of the mind, as it pursues, possesses, rejects, or shuns.
Page 154 - Thus was I gnawed within, and exceedingly confounded with an horrible shame, while Pontitianus was so speaking. And he having brought to a close his tale and the business he came for, went his way; and I into myself. What said I not against myself? with what scourges of condemnation lashed I not my soul, that it might follow me, striving to go after Thee! Yet it drew back; refused, but excused not itself. All arguments were spent and confuted; there remained a mute shrinking; and she feared, as she...
Page 71 - Hear the just law — the judgment of the skies, He that hates truth shall be the dupe of lies : And he that will be cheated to the last, Delusions strong as Hell shall bind him fast.