{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_026: The very toys of to", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_c402c51af593", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_026: The very toys of toys, and vanities of vanities, my ancient mistresses, still...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The very toys of toys, and vanities of vanities, my ancient mistresses, still held me; they plucked my fleshy garment, and whispered softly, \"Dost thou cast us off? and from that moment shall we no mo"}, {"id": "card_n_b7b63fb45423", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_023: When therefore they of Milan had sent to Rome to the prefect of the city, to ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "When therefore they of Milan had sent to Rome to the prefect of the city, to furnish them with a rhetoric reader for their city, and sent him at the public expense, I made application (through those v"}, {"id": "card_n_cedbd8729980", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_024: And when our discourse was brought to that point, that the very highest delig...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And when our discourse was brought to that point, that the very highest delight of the earthly senses, in the very purest material light, was, in respect of the sweetness of that life, not only not wo"}, {"id": "card_n_bbd5dec175d6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_036: If therefore we conceive of the natures of the things themselves, not allegor...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "If therefore we conceive of the natures of the things themselves, not allegorically, but properly, then does the phrase increase and multiply, agree unto all things, that come of seed. 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And that I might cleave the faster to its very centre, t"}, {"id": "card_n_3c1e3fde9ce5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_050: At other times, shunning over-anxiously this very deception, I err in too gre...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "At other times, shunning over-anxiously this very deception, I err in too great strictness; and sometimes to that degree, as to wish the whole melody of sweet music which is used to David's Psalter, b"}, {"id": "card_n_8032b7b5b51f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_022: Finally, her own husband, towards the very end of his earthly life, did she g...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Finally, her own husband, towards the very end of his earthly life, did she gain unto Thee; nor had she to complain of that in him as a believer, which before he was a believer she had borne from him."}, {"id": "card_n_03221ffe3065", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_024: And many of us friends conferring about, and detesting the turbulent turmoils...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And many of us friends conferring about, and detesting the turbulent turmoils of human life, had debated and now almost resolved on living apart from business and the bustle of men; and this was to be"}, {"id": "card_n_a18fb11e68a1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_026: To Thee be praise, glory to Thee, Fountain of mercies.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "To Thee be praise, glory to Thee, Fountain of mercies. I was becoming more miserable, and Thou nearer. Thy right hand was continually ready to pluck me out of the mire, and to wash me thoroughly, and "}, {"id": "card_n_68e91e3948a9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_025: Hereupon I earnestly bent my mind, to see if in any way I could by any certai...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Hereupon I earnestly bent my mind, to see if in any way I could by any certain proof convict the Manichees of falsehood. 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Why is it, that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would no m"}, {"id": "card_n_cf6928dba910", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_003: To Simplicianus then I went, the father of Ambrose (a Bishop now) in receivin...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "To Simplicianus then I went, the father of Ambrose (a Bishop now) in receiving Thy grace, and whom Ambrose truly loved as a father. To him I related the mazes of my wanderings. But when I mentioned th"}, {"id": "card_n_4433e20e3c89", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_026: But I pressed towards Thee, and was thrust from Thee, that I might taste of d...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But I pressed towards Thee, and was thrust from Thee, that I might taste of death: for thou resistest the proud. 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