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529.)] [Footnote 79: Augustin composed the two-and-twenty books de Civitate Dei in the space of thirteen years, A.D.
413-426.
Tillemont, (Mem.
Eccles. tom.xiv.p.608, &c.) His learning is too often borrowed, and his arguments are too often his own; but the whole work claims the merit of a magnificent design, vigorously, and not unskilfully, executed.] [Footnote 80: See Augustin de Civitat.
Dei, l.xxii.c.22, and the Appendix, which contains two books of St.Stephen's miracles, by Evodius, bishop of Uzalis.
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