{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_014: This is it that is", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_a635af206bdf", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_027: For true it is, O Lord, that Thou madest heaven and earth; and it is true too...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For true it is, O Lord, that Thou madest heaven and earth; and it is true too, that the Beginning is Thy Wisdom, in Which Thou createst all: and true again, that this visible world hath for its greate"}, {"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_5c0b9f551e48", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_002: The lowliness of my tongue confesseth unto Thy Highness, that Thou madest hea...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The lowliness of my tongue confesseth unto Thy Highness, that Thou madest heaven and earth; this heaven which I see, and this earth that I tread upon, whence is this earth that I bear about me; Thou m"}, {"id": "card_n_1731536929b0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_036: It is in thee, my mind, that I measure times.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "It is in thee, my mind, that I measure times. Interrupt me not, that is, interrupt not thyself with the tumults of thy impressions. 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For now hath"}, {"id": "card_n_de6027d80165", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_023: And I wondered that I now loved Thee, and no phantasm for Thee.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I wondered that I now loved Thee, and no phantasm for Thee. And yet did I not press on to enjoy my God; but was borne up to Thee by Thy beauty, and soon borne down from Thee by mine own weight, si"}, {"id": "card_n_534611934a3f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_031: Dost Thou bid me assent, if any define time to be \"motion of a body?\" Thou do...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Dost Thou bid me assent, if any define time to be \"motion of a body?\" Thou dost not bid me. 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