Confessions

by Augustine · 397-400

E. B. Pusey's translation, 1838. 13 parts, about 111,822 words, 8 hours of reading. Source edition.

Passages the guide marks

Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.
Book I, chapter 1 · Read it in Book I
Give me chastity and continency, only not yet.
Book VIII, chapter 7 · Read it in Book VIII
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know: if I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.
Book XI, chapter 14 · Read it in Book XI
Too late I loved Thee, O Thou Beauty of ancient days, yet ever new!
Book X, chapter 27 · Read it in Book X
A child's voice in a neighbouring house repeats a phrase meaning take up and read, and Augustine opens Paul's letter to the Romans at the first page his eye falls on.
Book VIII, chapter 12 · Read it in Book VIII

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Public domain in the United States; the Project Gutenberg edition is free of restrictions under the Project Gutenberg License. Translated by E. B. Pusey. It is not the edition the programs assign; the guide names that one, and the buy links there point at it.

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