{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_018: And yet we say, \"a", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_ccbf2a23f514", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_018: And yet we say, \"a long time\" and \"a short time\"; still, only of time past or...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And yet we say, \"a long time\" and \"a short time\"; still, only of time past or to come. A long time past (for example) we call an hundred years since; and a long time to come, an hundred years hence. B"}, {"id": "card_n_d77e4a5ee283", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_021: And yet, Lord, we perceive intervals of times, and compare them, and say, som...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And yet, Lord, we perceive intervals of times, and compare them, and say, some are shorter, and others longer. We measure also, how much longer or shorter this time is than that; and we answer, \"This "}, {"id": "card_n_8fcb53d51da5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_027: I said then even now, we measure times as they pass, in order to be able to s...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I said then even now, we measure times as they pass, in order to be able to say, this time is twice so much as that one; or, this is just so much as that; and so of any other parts of time, which be m"}, {"id": "card_n_a4698509cbb9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_001: Lord, since eternity is Thine, art Thou ignorant of what I say to Thee?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lord, since eternity is Thine, art Thou ignorant of what I say to Thee? or dost Thou see in time, what passeth in time? Why then do I lay in order before Thee so many relations? Not, of a truth, that "}, {"id": "card_n_42ae6fc8a7e6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_025: It yet remains for a man to say, if he will, that \"the already perfected and ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "It yet remains for a man to say, if he will, that \"the already perfected and formed natures, visible and invisible, are not signified under the name of heaven and earth, when we read, In the beginning"}, {"id": "card_n_7242ded11ca9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_027: For the woman that had lost her groat, and sought it with a light; unless she...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For the woman that had lost her groat, and sought it with a light; unless she had remembered it, she had never found it. For when it was found, whence should she know whether it were the same, unless "}, {"id": "card_n_7e26a23a1508", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_022: But, behold, out of my memory I bring it, when I say there be four perturbati...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But, behold, out of my memory I bring it, when I say there be four perturbations of the mind, desire, joy, fear, sorrow; and whatsoever I can dispute thereon, by dividing each into its subordinate spe"}, {"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. For what was spoken was not spoken successively, one thing conclu"}, {"id": "card_n_22453f2203b2", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_023: For they say, \"Though these things be true, yet did not Moses intend those tw...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For they say, \"Though these things be true, yet did not Moses intend those two, when, by revelation of the Spirit, he said, In the beginning God created heaven and earth. He did not under the name of "}, {"id": "card_n_ef531b679a49", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_029: I heard once from a learned man, that the motions of the sun, moon, and stars...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I heard once from a learned man, that the motions of the sun, moon, and stars, constituted time, and I assented not. For why should not the motions of all bodies rather be times? Or, if the lights of "}, {"id": "card_n_4e743297cf2f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_017: At no time then hadst Thou not made any thing, because time itself Thou madest.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "At no time then hadst Thou not made any thing, because time itself Thou madest. And no times are coeternal with Thee, because Thou abidest; but if they abode, they should not be times. For what is tim"}, {"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? Is not this house of God, not coe"}, {"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_9adf884ca117", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_020: See how the present time, which alone we found could be called long, is abrid...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "See how the present time, which alone we found could be called long, is abridged to the length scarce of one day. But let us examine that also; because neither is one day present as a whole. For it is"}, {"id": "card_n_c72f9c71957a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_026: All which things being heard and well considered, I will not strive about wor...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "All which things being heard and well considered, I will not strive about words: for that is profitable to nothing, but the subversion of the hearers. But the law is good to edify, if a man use it law"}, {"id": "card_n_1731536929b0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_036: It is in thee, my mind, that I measure times.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "It is in thee, my mind, that I measure times. Interrupt me not, that is, interrupt not thyself with the tumults of thy impressions. In thee I measure times; the impression, which things as they pass b"}, {"id": "card_n_370914788e0d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_017: But now when I hear that there be three kinds of questions, \"Whether the thin...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But now when I hear that there be three kinds of questions, \"Whether the thing be? what it is? of what kind it is?\" I do indeed hold the images of the sounds of which those words be composed, and that"}, {"id": "card_n_e2a1059d4f5d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_019: And to Thee is nothing whatsoever evil: yea, not only to Thee, but also to Th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And to Thee is nothing whatsoever evil: yea, not only to Thee, but also to Thy creation as a whole, because there is nothing without, which may break in, and corrupt that order which Thou hast appoint"}, {"id": "card_n_1a0dcf4e34eb", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_015: Behold, I too say, O my God, Where art Thou?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Behold, I too say, O my God, Where art Thou? see, where Thou art! in Thee I breathe a little, when I pour out my soul by myself in the voice of joy and praise, the sound of him that keeps holy-day. An"}, {"id": "card_n_b26822dd285e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_023: But whether by images or no, who can readily say?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But whether by images or no, who can readily say? Thus, I name a stone, I name the sun, the things themselves not being present to my senses, but their images to my memory. I name a bodily pain, yet i"}]}