{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_054: To this is added an", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_eef7150c8404", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_009: This law holds in foul and accursed joy; this in permitted and lawful joy; th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This law holds in foul and accursed joy; this in permitted and lawful joy; this in the very purest perfection of friendship; this, in him who was dead, and lived again; had been lost and was found. Ev"}, {"id": "card_n_4377a969b396", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_010: Is not this corporeal figure apparent to all whose senses are perfect?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Is not this corporeal figure apparent to all whose senses are perfect? why then speaks it not the same to all? Animals small and great see it, but they cannot ask it: because no reason is set over the"}, {"id": "card_n_6f3da3abfe46", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_054: To this is added another form of temptation more manifoldly dangerous.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "To this is added another form of temptation more manifoldly dangerous. For besides that concupiscence of the flesh which consisteth in the delight of all senses and pleasures, wherein its slaves, who "}, {"id": "card_n_817442fc6789", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_019: Let us see then, thou soul of man, whether present time can be long: for to t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let us see then, thou soul of man, whether present time can be long: for to thee it is given to feel and to measure length of time. What wilt thou answer me? 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In the ordinary course"}, {"id": "card_n_5d4220bafc3a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_006: This is the fruit of my confessions of what I am, not of what I have been, to...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This is the fruit of my confessions of what I am, not of what I have been, to confess this, not before Thee only, in a secret exultation with trembling, and a secret sorrow with hope; but in the ears "}, {"id": "card_n_0500da92d451", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_033: It is not certain then that all wish to be happy, inasmuch as they who wish n...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "It is not certain then that all wish to be happy, inasmuch as they who wish not to joy in Thee, which is the only happy life, do not truly desire the happy life. Or do all men desire this, but because"}, {"id": "card_n_25ca17495cba", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_040: Was it for his own necessities, because he said, Ye sent unto my necessity?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Was it for his own necessities, because he said, Ye sent unto my necessity? Rejoiceth he for that? Verily not for that. But how know we this? Because himself says immediately, not because I desire a g"}, {"id": "card_n_764bd12dea2d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_044: This hast Thou taught me, that I should set myself to take food as physic.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This hast Thou taught me, that I should set myself to take food as physic. But while I am passing from the discomfort of emptiness to the content of replenishing, in the very passage the snare of conc"}, {"id": "card_n_d18bf995698b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_014: Thou didst deal with me, that I should be persuaded to go to Rome, and to tea...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thou didst deal with me, that I should be persuaded to go to Rome, and to teach there rather, what I was teaching at Carthage. And how I was persuaded to this, I will not neglect to confess to Thee; b"}, {"id": "card_n_41d9cbb63b29", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_003: I remember also, that when I had settled to enter the lists for a theatrical ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I remember also, that when I had settled to enter the lists for a theatrical prize, some wizard asked me what I would give him to win; but I, detesting and abhorring such foul mysteries, answered, \"Th"}, {"id": "card_n_3212bbf59c46", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_008: This I believed, sometimes more strongly, more weakly otherwhiles; yet I ever...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This I believed, sometimes more strongly, more weakly otherwhiles; yet I ever believed both that Thou wert, and hadst a care of us; though I was ignorant, both what was to be thought of Thy substance,"}, {"id": "card_n_83ed5c42862e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_021: This great gift also thou bestowedst, O my God, my mercy, upon that good hand...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This great gift also thou bestowedst, O my God, my mercy, upon that good handmaid of Thine, in whose womb Thou createdst me, that between any disagreeing and discordant parties where she was able, she"}, {"id": "card_n_73945193ccef", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_032: But which of us shall, among those so many truths, which occur to enquirers i...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But which of us shall, among those so many truths, which occur to enquirers in those words, as they are differently understood, so discover that one meaning, as to affirm, \"this Moses thought,\" and \"t"}, {"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_97c7809f3d80", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_028: My soul is on fire to know this most intricate enigma.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "My soul is on fire to know this most intricate enigma. Shut it not up, O Lord my God, good Father; through Christ I beseech Thee, do not shut up these usual, yet hidden things, from my desire, that it"}, {"id": "card_n_592b275b3694", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_021: Whence is this monstrousness?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Whence is this monstrousness? and to what end? Let Thy mercy gleam that I may ask, if so be the secret penalties of men, and those darkest pangs of the sons of Adam, may perhaps answer me. Whence is t"}, {"id": "card_n_4dae2cc029a5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_030: For should any attempt to dispute against these two last opinions, thus, \"If ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For should any attempt to dispute against these two last opinions, thus, \"If you will not allow, that this formlessness of matter seems to be called by the name of heaven and earth; Ergo, there was so"}, {"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_ec1e106a8311", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_002: Stage-plays also carried me away, full of images of my miseries, and of fuel ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Stage-plays also carried me away, full of images of my miseries, and of fuel to my fire. Why is it, that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would no m"}]}