There are 12 instances of Augustine of Hippo in eight chapters.
Normalized frequency of Augustine of Hippo in the Essays
Bar graph showing log-normalized frequency of Augustine of Hippo over the 108 chapters of the Essays where eight chapters are highlighted. To the Reader (FM.1): 0 instance / 246 words By Various Ways We Arrive at the Same End (I.1): 0 instance / 1,339 words On Sorrow (I.2): 0 instance / 1,150 words Our Attachments Outlive Us (I.3): 0 instance / 2,742 words How the Soul Releases Its Emotions on False Objects When Real Ones Are Missing (I.4): 0 instance / 833 words Whether the Commander of a Place Under Siege Ought to Go Out to Parley (I.5): 0 instance / 974 words The Dangerous Hour of Parley (I.6): 0 instance / 879 words Intent Is the Arbiter of Our Actions (I.7): 0 instance / 560 words On Idleness (I.8): 0 instance / 404 words On Liars (I.9): 0 instance / 2,056 words On Quick or Slow Speech (I.10): 0 instance / 823 words On Prognostications (I.11): 0 instance / 1,560 words On Constancy (I.12): 0 instance / 860 words Protocol at the Meetings of Kings (I.13): 0 instance / 517 words There Is a Price to Pay for Needlessly Defending a Position (I.14): 0 instance / 434 words On the Punishment of Cowardice (I.15): 0 instance / 530 words A Record of Some Ambassadors (I.16): 0 instance / 1,118 words On Fear (I.17): 0 instance / 934 words Let Others Judge of Our Happiness after Our Death (I.18): 0 instance / 973 words To Philosophize Is to Learn to Die (I.19): 0 instance / 6,213 words On the Power of Imagination (I.20): 2 instances / 4,300 words One Person’s Gain Is Another Person’s Loss (I.21): 0 instance / 256 words On Custom and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law (I.22): 0 instance / 7,587 words Various Events Sharing the Same Premise (I.23): 0 instance / 4,358 words On Pedantry (I.24): 0 instance / 5,382 words On the Education of Children (I.25): 0 instance / 16,387 words It Is Folly to Measure the True and the False by Our Own Capacity (I.26): 1 instance / 1,666 words On Friendship (I.27): 0 instance / 5,721 words Twenty-Nine Sonnets of Étienne de La Boétie (I.28): 0 instance / 282 words On Moderation (I.29): 0 instance / 2,165 words On Cannibals (I.30): 0 instance / 5,945 words Hazarding an Opinion on God’s Plans Demands Caution (I.31): 1 instance / 894 words On Fleeing from Pleasures at the Cost of One’s Life (I.32): 0 instance / 702 words Where Reason Goes Fortune Often Goes Too (I.33): 0 instance / 1,269 words On a Deficiency in Our Systems (I.34): 0 instance / 527 words On the Custom of Wearing Clothes (I.35): 0 instance / 1,431 words On Cato the Younger (I.36): 0 instance / 1,578 words How We Cry and Laugh at the Same Thing (I.37): 0 instance / 1,272 words On Solitude (I.38): 0 instance / 4,815 words A Consideration on Cicero (I.39): 0 instance / 2,340 words The Taste of Good and Bad Things Depends Mostly on the Opinion We Have of Them (I.40): 1 instance / 7,894 words On Not Sharing One’s Fame (I.41): 0 instance / 1,064 words On the Inequality among Us (I.42): 0 instance / 4,108 words On Sumptuary Laws (I.43): 0 instance / 849 words On Sleep (I.44): 0 instance / 976 words On the Battle of Dreux (I.45): 0 instance / 533 words On Names (I.46): 0 instance / 2,145 words On the Uncertainty of Our Judgment (I.47): 0 instance / 2,727 words On War Horses (I.48): 0 instance / 3,595 words On Ancient Customs (I.49): 0 instance / 1,780 words On Democritus and Heraclitus (I.50): 0 instance / 1,426 words On the Vanity of Words (I.51): 0 instance / 1,354 words On the Parsimony of the Ancients (I.52): 0 instance / 302 words On a Saying of Caesar (I.53): 0 instance / 487 words On Vain Subtleties (I.54): 0 instance / 1,287 words On Smells (I.55): 0 instance / 782 words On Prayers (I.56): 0 instance / 3,862 words On Age (I.57): 0 instance / 1,123 words On the Inconsistency of Our Actions (II.1): 0 instance / 2,894 words On Drunkenness (II.2): 0 instance / 3,823 words A Custom of the Island of Cea (II.3): 0 instance / 5,993 words Business Can Wait (II.4): 0 instance / 906 words On Conscience (II.5): 0 instance / 1,526 words On Practice (II.6): 0 instance / 4,714 words On Honorary Awards (II.7): 0 instance / 1,482 words On the Affection of Fathers for Their Children (II.8): 1 instance / 8,812 words On the Armor of the Parthians (II.9): 0 instance / 1,287 words On Books (II.10): 0 instance / 5,912 words On Cruelty (II.11): 0 instance / 6,235 words Apology for Raymond Sebond (II.12): 3 instances / 76,143 words On Judging of the Death of Another (II.13): 0 instance / 2,604 words How Our Mind Hinders Itself (II.14): 0 instance / 336 words Difficulty Increases Our Desire (II.15): 0 instance / 2,302 words On Glory (II.16): 0 instance / 5,659 words On Presumption (II.17): 0 instance / 13,605 words On Calling Out Lies (II.18): 0 instance / 1,872 words On Freedom of Conscience (II.19): 0 instance / 1,747 words We Taste Nothing Pure (II.20): 0 instance / 1,221 words Against Laziness (II.21): 0 instance / 1,788 words On Couriers (II.22): 0 instance / 519 words On Bad Means to a Good End (II.23): 0 instance / 1,382 words On Roman Greatness (II.24): 0 instance / 659 words On Not Faking an Illness (II.25): 0 instance / 919 words On Thumbs (II.26): 0 instance / 341 words Cowardice, Mother of Cruelty (II.27): 0 instance / 4,113 words All Things Have Their Season (II.28): 0 instance / 797 words On Virtue (II.29): 0 instance / 3,239 words On a Monster Child (II.30): 0 instance / 648 words On Anger (II.31): 0 instance / 3,092 words In Defense of Seneca and Plutarch (II.32): 0 instance / 2,846 words The Story of Spurina (II.33): 0 instance / 3,116 words Observations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War (II.34): 0 instance / 3,580 words On Three Good Women (II.35): 0 instance / 3,416 words On the Most Excellent Men (II.36): 0 instance / 2,707 words On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers (II.37): 0 instance / 12,917 words On the Useful and the Honorable (III.1): 0 instance / 6,593 words On Repentance (III.2): 0 instance / 6,289 words On Three Kinds of Relations (III.3): 0 instance / 5,358 words On Diversion (III.4): 0 instance / 4,347 words On Some Verses of Virgil (III.5): 2 instances / 24,595 words On Coaches (III.6): 0 instance / 8,050 words On the Inconvenience of High Status (III.7): 0 instance / 2,111 words On the Art of Discussion (III.8): 0 instance / 10,193 words On Vanity (III.9): 0 instance / 25,500 words On Conserving One’s Will (III.10): 0 instance / 9,995 words On the Lame (III.11): 1 instance / 4,683 words On Physiognomy (III.12): 0 instance / 12,363 words On Experience (III.13): 0 instance / 24,731 words Book 1 · Chapter 20 · ¶ 11. On the Power of Imagination
❯ that his body could remain a long while without breath or sensation. Saint Augustine mentioned another who, simply by being made to hear cries of lamentation …
Book 1 · Chapter 20 · ¶ 25. On the Power of Imagination
❯ And whatever powers our will may well be granted over it — Saint Augustine alleges to have seen someone directing his bottom to fart as many …
Book 1 · Chapter 26 · ¶ 13. It Is Folly to Measure the True and the False by Our Own Capacity
❯ condemn all suchlike stories, seems to me a singular impudence. That great Saint Augustine testifies to have seen a blind child recover sight upon the relics …
Book 1 · Chapter 31 · ¶ 4. Hazarding an Opinion on God’s Plans Demands Caution
❯ one hit that they do not receive two for it; of which Saint Augustine makes out a great proof upon his adversaries. ’Tis a conflict that …
Book 1 · Chapter 40 · ¶ 37. The Taste of Good and Bad Things Depends Mostly on the Opinion We Have of Them
❯ as much room as we give it in us. Tantum doluerunt, said Saint Augustine , quantum doloribus se inseruerunt.They suffered as much pain as they took in.❦ …
Book 2 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 54. On the Affection of Fathers for Their Children
❯ than the other? It had been, for example, peradventure, an impiety in Saint Augustine , if, on the one hand, it had been proposed to him to …
Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 45. Apology for Raymond Sebond
❯ For Saint Augustine , disputing against these people, has good cause to reproach them with injustice, …
Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 264. Apology for Raymond Sebond
❯ Melius scitur Deus nesciendo.God is better known by not knowing him.❦ says Saint Augustine : and Tacitus: Sanctius est ac reverentius de actis Deorum credere, quam scire.It …
Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 451. Apology for Raymond Sebond
❯ in reason, and concealed in the majesty of nature,❦ says Pliny. And Saint Augustine : Modus quo corporibus adhorent spiritus, omnino minis est, nec comprehendi ab homine …
Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 37. On Some Verses of Virgil
❯ auricular and private confession, I confess myself in public, religiously and purely: Saint Augustine , Origeti, and Hippocrates have published the errors of their opinions; I, moreover, …
Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 102. On Some Verses of Virgil
❯ covered by their virtue without any other robe. But those, of whom Saint Augustine speaks, have given nudity a wonderful power of temptation, who have made …
Book 3 · Chapter 11 · ¶ 16. On the Lame
❯ its verification as such, by means not miraculous; and I am of Saint Augustine ’s opinion, that, “’tis better to lean toward doubt than assurance, in things …