" Book 10 describes the "truth-given Joy" which the soul can attain, and Book 11 discusses eternity as measured by the soul.
Book 3 of this work describes Cicero's lost work Hortensius and its power to "sharpen the toungue." Book 10 describes the "truth-given Joy" which the soul can attain, and Book 11 discusses eternity as measured by the soul. The last two books discuss the exegesis of the Book of Genesis, while Book 2 recounts a story of thieves who steal from a pear tree and feed the pears to swine. After an account of the orator Marius Victorinus in Book 8, a young child tells the narrator to "pick it up and read it," which he takes as an omen that he should give up Manichaeism and convert to Christianity. FTP, name this autobiographical work by Saint Augustine.
Book 3 of this work describes Cicero's lost work Hortensius and its power to "sharpen the toungue.
{Confessions} or {Confessiones}