{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_017: What then was this", "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_1e57780a5016", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_017: What then was this feeling?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then was this feeling? For of a truth it was too foul: and woe was me, who had it. But yet what was it? Who can understand his errors? 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That beggar-man joyed in drunkenness; Thou desiredst to joy in glory.\" What glory, Lord? That which is n"}, {"id": "card_n_b748216438ed", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_033: This was the world at whose gate unhappy I lay in my boyhood; this the stage ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This was the world at whose gate unhappy I lay in my boyhood; this the stage where I had feared more to commit a barbarism, than having committed one, to envy those who had not. These things I speak a"}, {"id": "card_n_aa7c0f1d489c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_035: What then shall I say, O Truth my Light?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then shall I say, O Truth my Light? \"that it was idly said, and without meaning?\" Not so, O Father of piety, far be it from a minister of Thy word to say so. 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He aske"}, {"id": "card_n_7a950aa793c2", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_005: Ignorant then how this Thy image should subsist, I should have knocked and pr...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Ignorant then how this Thy image should subsist, I should have knocked and proposed the doubt, how it was to be believed, not insultingly opposed it, as if believed. 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