King Alfred's Old English Version of St. Augustine's Soliloquies: Turned into Modern English

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Then said he, his mind often went fearing and searching out various and rare things, and most of all about himself--_what[1] he was; whether his mind and his soul were mortal and perishable, or ever-living and eternal_; and again, about his God, what He was, and of what nature He was; and what good it were best for him to do, and what evil best to forsake. Then answered me something, I know not what, whether myself or another thing; nor know I whether it was within me or without; _but this one thing I most truly know, that it was my Reason_; and it said to me: _Reason._ If thou have any good steward that can well hold that which thou gettest and committest unto him, show him to me; _but if …

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