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  CONFESSIONS - BOOK IX - CHAPTER IV
  by St. Augustine
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7. Finally the day came on which I was actually to be relieved from the
professorship of rhetoric, from which I had already been released in
intention. And it was done. And thou didst deliver my tongue as thou
hadst already delivered my heart; and I blessed thee for it with great
joy, and retired with my friends to the villa.[275] My books testify to
what I got done there in writing, which was now hopefully devoted to thy
service; though in this pause it was still as if I were panting from my
exertions in the school of pride.[276] These were the books in which I
engaged in dialogue with my friends, and also those in soliloquy before
thee alone.[277] And there are my letters to Nebridius, who was still
absent.[278]

When would there be enough time to recount all thy great blessings which
thou didst bestow on us in that time, especially as I am hastening on to
still greater mercies? For my memory recalls them to me and it is
pleasant to confess them to thee, O Lord: the inward goads by which thou
didst subdue me and how thou broughtest me low, leveling the mountains
and hills of my thoughts, straightening my crookedness, and smoothing my
rough ways. And I remember by what means thou also didst subdue Alypius,
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