{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_010: For there is an att", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_4025b1b3744f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_003: And now this earth was invisible and without form, and there was I know not w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And now this earth was invisible and without form, and there was I know not what depth of abyss, upon which there was no light, because it had no shape. Therefore didst Thou command it to be written, "}, {"id": "card_n_764bd12dea2d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_044: This hast Thou taught me, that I should set myself to take food as physic.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This hast Thou taught me, that I should set myself to take food as physic. 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Nor is it properly said, \"there be three times, past, present, and to come\": yet perchance it might be properly said, \"there b"}, {"id": "card_n_f73877a9def8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_037: But how is that future diminished or consumed, which as yet is not?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But how is that future diminished or consumed, which as yet is not? or how that past increased, which is now no longer, save that in the mind which enacteth this, there be three things done? For it ex"}, {"id": "card_n_817442fc6789", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_019: Let us see then, thou soul of man, whether present time can be long: for to t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let us see then, thou soul of man, whether present time can be long: for to thee it is given to feel and to measure length of time. What wilt thou answer me? 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