{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_034: And then by little", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_0bc7bc4c912f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_034: And then by little and little I recovered my former thoughts of Thy handmaid,...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And then by little and little I recovered my former thoughts of Thy handmaid, her holy conversation towards Thee, her holy tenderness and observance towards us, whereof I was suddenly deprived: and I "}, {"id": "card_n_e63a89413092", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_018: And yet (as Thy handmaid told me her son) there had crept upon her a love of ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And yet (as Thy handmaid told me her son) there had crept upon her a love of wine. For when (as the manner was) she, as though a sober maiden, was bidden by her parents to draw wine out of the hogshed"}, {"id": "card_n_34b8d711f81a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_008: Afterwards I began to smile; first in sleep, then waking: for so it was told ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Afterwards I began to smile; first in sleep, then waking: for so it was told me of myself, and I believed it; for we see the like in other infants, though of myself I remember it not. Thus, little by "}, {"id": "card_n_c42c7b0d6437", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_031: But what did this further me, imagining that Thou, O Lord God, the Truth, wer...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But what did this further me, imagining that Thou, O Lord God, the Truth, wert a vast and bright body, and I a fragment of that body? Perverseness too great! But such was I. 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"}, {"id": "card_n_2f05f5f9c92e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_033: Does not my soul most truly confess unto Thee, that I do measure times?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Does not my soul most truly confess unto Thee, that I do measure times? Do I then measure, O my God, and know not what I measure? I measure the motion of a body in time; and the time itself do I not m"}, {"id": "card_n_2fa7e2abe99b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_020: These things I then knew not, and I loved these lower beauties, and I was sin...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "These things I then knew not, and I loved these lower beauties, and I was sinking to the very depths, and to my friends I said, \"Do we love any thing but the beautiful? What then is the beautiful? and"}, {"id": "card_n_09118272b605", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_016: And lo, there was I received by the scourge of bodily sickness, and I was goi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And lo, there was I received by the scourge of bodily sickness, and I was going down to hell, carrying all the sins which I had committed, both against Thee, and myself, and others, many and grievous,"}, {"id": "card_n_eb03c8af3d77", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_013: Times lose no time; nor do they roll idly by; through our senses they work st...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Times lose no time; nor do they roll idly by; through our senses they work strange operations on the mind. Behold, they went and came day by day, and by coming and going, introduced into my mind other"}, {"id": "card_n_e358c564ba96", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_009: Thou callest us then to understand the Word, God, with Thee God, Which is spo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thou callest us then to understand the Word, God, with Thee God, Which is spoken eternally, and by It are all things spoken eternally. 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