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" Son, for mine own part I have no further delight in anything in this life. What I do here any longer, and to what end I am here, I know not, now that my hopes in this world are accomplished. "
Alypius of Tagaste - Page 131
by Annie Webb - 1799
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Lives of certain fathers of the Church in the fourth century, Volume 1

William James E. Bennett - 1847 - 380 pages
...admiring of Thy works; and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them." At last Monica said, " Son, for mine own part, I have no further delight in anything in this life.. .. One thing there was, for which I desired to linger for a while in this life, that I might see thee...
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Women of Christianity: Exemplary for Acts of Piety and Charity

Julia Kavanagh - Christian biography - 1852 - 524 pages
...adds Augustine, " this world with all its delights became contemptible to us. My mother said, ' Son, for mine own part, I have no further delight in anything in this life. What I do here any longer, and to what end I am here, I know not, now that my hopes in this world are accomplished. One thing...
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Representative Women; Queens, Heroines, Peasants, Confessors, and ...

Edwin Paxton Hood - Women - 1853 - 332 pages
...adds Augustine, " this world with all its delights became contemptible to us. My mother said, • Son, for mine own part, I have no further delight in anything in this life. What I do here any longer, and to what end I am here, I know not, now that my hopes in this world are accomplished. One thing...
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The Sunday at Home, Volume 31

1884 - 874 pages
...surmounting self." And then the mother, we are sure, her arms round tho neck of her son, said, " Son, for mine own part, I have no further delight in anything in this life; what do I here any longer ? to what end am I here I know not, my hopes in this world are accomplished, I...
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The Journal of Sacred Literature

Bible - 1859 - 498 pages
...this world, with all its delights, became, as we spake, contemptible to us, my mother said : ' Son, for mine own part, I have no further delight in anything in this life. What I do here any longer, and to what end I am here, I know not, now that my hopes in this world are accomplished. One thing...
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The Journal of sacred literature, ed. by J. Kitto. [Continued as ..., Volume 8

John Kitto - 1859 - 498 pages
...this world, with all its delights, became, as we spake, contemptible to us, my mother said : ' Son, for mine own part, I have no further delight in anything in this life. What I do here any longer, and to what end I am here, I know not, now that my hopes in this world are accomplished. One thing...
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The Mothers of Great Men

Sarah Stickney Ellis - Mothers - 1859 - 444 pages
...world, with all its delights, became by comparison contemptible to them, when the mother said, " Son, for mine own part, I have no further delight in anything in this life. What do I here any longer, or to what end I am here, I know not, now that my hopes in this world are accomplished....
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St. Augustine: A Biographical Memoir

John Baillie - 1859 - 320 pages
...quiet radiance, his last golden beams into the humble chamber, " for mine own part, I have no farther delight in anything in this life. What I do here any longer, and to what end I am here, I know not, — now that my hopes in this world are accomplished. One thing...
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The Confessions of Augustine

Saint Augustine (of Hippo) - Christian saints - 1860 - 468 pages
...and this world with all its delights became, as we spake, contemptible to us, my mother said, " Son, for mine own part I have no further delight in anything in this life. What I do here any longer, and to what end I am here, I know not, now that my hopes in this world are accomplished. One thing...
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Christian Home Life: A Book of Examples and Principles

S. S. Pugh - Christian life - 1864 - 240 pages
...remarkably verified. Just before her death, and after he had become a true Christian, she exclaimed, "Son, for mine own part I have no further delight in anything in this life. What I do here any longer, and to what end I am here, I know not, now that my hopes in this world (in his conversion) are accomplished."...
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