The Confessions Of Saint Augustine

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Chapter IV – He Commits Theft With His Companions, Not Urged On By Poverty, But From A Certain Distaste Of Well-Doing

Chapter III – Concerning His Father, A Freeman Of Thagaste, The Assister Of His Son’s Studies, And On The Admonitions Of His Mother On The Preservation Of Chastitiy.

Chapter II – Stricken With Exceeding Grief, He Remembers The Dissolute Passions In Which, In His Sixteenth Year, He Used To Indulge.

Chapter I – He Deplores The Wickedness Of His Youth.

Contents – Book II

Chapter XVIII – Men Desire To Observe The Rules Of Learning, But Neglect The Eternal Rules Of Everlasting Safety.

Chapter XVII – He Continues On The Unhappy Method Of Training Youth In Literary Subjects.

Chapter XVI – He Disapproves Of The Mode Of Educating Youth, And He Points Out Why Wickedness Is Attributed To The Gods By The Poets.

Chapter XV – He Entreats God, That Whatever Useful Things He Learned As A Boy May Be Dedicated To Him.

Chapter XIV – Why He Despised Greek Literature, And Easily Learned Latin.