{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_010: And for almost all", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_096b4b14fba0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_010: And for almost all those nine years, wherein with unsettled mind I had been t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And for almost all those nine years, wherein with unsettled mind I had been their disciple, I had longed but too intensely for the coming of this Faustus. 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For it was a year, or not much more, that Justi"}, {"id": "card_n_76413f9f7d97", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_021: \"What say ye to me, O ye gainsayers that I was speaking unto, who yet believe...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"What say ye to me, O ye gainsayers that I was speaking unto, who yet believe Moses to have been the holy servant of God, and his books the oracles of the Holy Ghost? 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