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Bahia, ryegrass, fine fescue, St. Augustine, and zoysia grasses need 2 to 4 pounds.
For Augustine, there are two fundamental objects of knowledge, the created and the Untreated, changeable nature and unchangeable Truth.
For St. Augustine, resorting to war as a necessary evil is acceptable when it deters greater evil and is pursued in the spirit of justice.
Augustine was in a garden in Milan, overwhelmed by his sinfulness, especially his slavery to sexual desire.
The point is that horror fiction, especially gothic horror fiction seems to owe a debt to St Augustine.
Based on this premise, Augustine postulated that any war ordained by God was, by default, just.
In his self-description, however, Augustine does not push away his past as we so often do in our own self-assessments.
The logic by which Paul parallels Adam and Christ is central to the notion of original sin as developed by Augustine and others.
We turn our attention first of all to the Semi-Pelagian controversy that occupied so much of the attention of the great church father, Augustine.
As a young man, St. Augustine was well practiced in gratifying the desires of his fallen nature.
Augustine never studied Hebrew, though he understood words of Punic spoken by the peasants and well knew that it was a cognate Semitic language.
Yet, as he shows, it was characteristic and effective in the hands of churchmen like Athanasius, Augustine, Bernard, Anselm, and Calvin.
Tertullian and Augustine transformed the inheritance of Ciceronian rhetoric into an art of preaching.
In 416 Augustine and his African bishops convened two diocesan councils to condemn him and Celestius, another Celt.
The passage from St. Augustine uncannily prefigures the couplet of Hafiz which I quoted above.
The most potent initial influence guiding the young Augustine in philosophical matters came from Cicero's dialogues.
When Augustine died of sudden illness in the spring of 1743, his lands were divided among his sons.
However, Saint Augustine realised that the essentially non-worldly nature of Godhead was not conveyed by these means.
Augustine had an aura like lop-eared rabbits and fluffy baby chicks that demanded even the most crotchety of old men stand up and take notice.
The branch of study of beauty known as philocaly is akin to philosophy for, according to Augustine, they have a common lineage.
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Houses in St. Augustine are built of coquina rock, which is simply a mass of broken shells held together by a lime cement.
Buffon, like many another man, from St. Augustine down to his own times, considered the transformist explanation of living nature.
That squint-eyed Augustine who had to look after the stoves was to eat off her knees.
But in the library he found the works of St. Augustine and these he devoured.
Augustine stayed for a year in Rome, occupied in literary work, particularly in controversy with manichaeism.
Augustine was so enthusiastic that she jabbed the poker into the stove harder than ever.
In this view the great schoolman but follows the teachings of St. Augustine.
There was much in the teaching of Augustine that was neoplatonic, that was akin to the speculations of Plato himself.
Thus did I, who had been vowed to the anchorite order of St. Augustine, enter upon my life as an unordained anchorite.
He had formerly been an Augustine friar, and was promoted to the mitre on account of his merit.
As for this eponym thing, why Saint Augustine called attention to it fifteen hundred years ago.
Augustine directed his attention more particularly to the refutation of Pelagian heresies and human Depravity.
Augustine was still busied in the Pelagian controversy when a fearful calamity burst upon his country.
And Augustine was not only part of all this, but in mind and temper was platonically inclined.
Platonism was in the air, at least was in the air breathed by an Augustine.
He was engaged to his cousin Augustine Landois, who was also employed by Quenu.
It became so stifling that Augustine ran out of spit and was forced to lick her lips.
Augustine pretended that she didn't understand, but her ears were wide open.
That village is densely populated with natives and Chinese mestizos who are in charge of calced religious of St. Augustine.
Disgust with this literal interpretation of the scripture was thus one of the reasons which drew Augustine away from chiliasm.
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