{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_006: He then had at that", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f9b38fafa702", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_016: Him then I had found at Rome, and he clave to me by a most strong tie, and we...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Him then I had found at Rome, and he clave to me by a most strong tie, and went with me to Milan, both that he might not leave me, and might practise something of the law he had studied, more to pleas"}, {"id": "card_n_37d789e01081", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_038: But they are fed by these fruits, that are delighted with them; nor are they ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But they are fed by these fruits, that are delighted with them; nor are they delighted with them, whose God is their belly. 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Wretched I was; and wretched is every soul bound by the friendship of perishable things; he is torn asunder "}, {"id": "card_n_e596d990c2c3", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_020: Her mother-in-law also, at first by whisperings of evil servants incensed aga...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Her mother-in-law also, at first by whisperings of evil servants incensed against her, she so overcame by observance and persevering endurance and meekness, that she of her own accord discovered to he"}, {"id": "card_n_c92219bd1b79", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_018: I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpose my baptism was then deferred? was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or wa"}, {"id": "card_n_51f8a7d4e0b1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_006: For I was in such wise striving to find out the rest, as one who had already ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For I was in such wise striving to find out the rest, as one who had already found that the incorruptible must needs be better than the corruptible: and Thee therefore, whatsoever Thou wert, I confess"}]}