{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_011: When, then, we ask", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_8fcb53d51da5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_027: I said then even now, we measure times as they pass, in order to be able to s...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I said then even now, we measure times as they pass, in order to be able to say, this time is twice so much as that one; or, this is just so much as that; and so of any other parts of time, which be m"}, {"id": "card_n_1f5ec501d96a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_011: When, then, we ask why a crime was done, we believe it not, unless it appear ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "When, then, we ask why a crime was done, we believe it not, unless it appear that there might have been some desire of obtaining some of those which we called lower goods, or a fear of losing them. 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For what is tim"}, {"id": "card_n_7242ded11ca9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_027: For the woman that had lost her groat, and sought it with a light; unless she...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For the woman that had lost her groat, and sought it with a light; unless she had remembered it, she had never found it. For when it was found, whence should she know whether it were the same, unless "}, {"id": "card_n_3881d3254abb", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_030: But is it so, as one remembers Carthage who hath seen it?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But is it so, as one remembers Carthage who hath seen it? No. For a happy life is not seen with the eye, because it is not a body. As we remember numbers then? 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