{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_005: So that when though", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_339ec3907a77", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_025: Lord, I, truly, toil therein, yea and toil in myself; I am become a heavy soi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lord, I, truly, toil therein, yea and toil in myself; I am become a heavy soil requiring over much sweat of the brow. For we are not now searching out the regions of heaven, or measuring the distances"}, {"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_fdf222ba4e05", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_004: I however certainly had no opportunity of enquiring what I wished of that so ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I however certainly had no opportunity of enquiring what I wished of that so holy oracle of Thine, his breast, unless the thing might be answered briefly. But those tides in me, to be poured out to hi"}, {"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_3fb5ee50a72f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_029: How then do I seek Thee, O Lord?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "How then do I seek Thee, O Lord? For when I seek Thee, my God, I seek a happy life. I will seek Thee, that my soul may live. For my body liveth by my soul; and my soul by Thee. How then do I seek a ha"}, {"id": "card_n_0f38cf3f9f0b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_006: I joyed also that the old Scriptures of the law and the Prophets were laid be...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I joyed also that the old Scriptures of the law and the Prophets were laid before me, not now to be perused with that eye to which before they seemed absurd, when I reviled Thy holy ones for so thinki"}, {"id": "card_n_dbb816175c3d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_020: All these things I remember, and how I learnt them I remember.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "All these things I remember, and how I learnt them I remember. Many things also most falsely objected against them have I heard, and remember; which though they be false, yet is it not false that I re"}, {"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_38a0eb4f19cf", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_015: Turn us, O God of Hosts, show us Thy countenance, and we shall be whole.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Turn us, O God of Hosts, show us Thy countenance, and we shall be whole. For whithersoever the soul of man turns itself, unless toward Thee, it is riveted upon sorrows, yea though it is riveted on thi"}, {"id": "card_n_dbd77dc05955", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_014: O God my God, what miseries and mockeries did I now experience, when obedienc...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O God my God, what miseries and mockeries did I now experience, when obedience to my teachers was proposed to me, as proper in a boy, in order that in this world I might prosper, and excel in tongue-s"}, {"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_96c6f5741f6a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_028: But I, considering Thy gifts, Thou unseen God, which Thou instillest into the...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But I, considering Thy gifts, Thou unseen God, which Thou instillest into the hearts of Thy faithful ones, whence wondrous fruits do spring, did rejoice and give thanks to Thee, recalling what I befor"}, {"id": "card_n_de33bf7bf75f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_029: What did all this further me, seeing it even hindered me?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What did all this further me, seeing it even hindered me? when, imagining whatever was, was comprehended under those ten Predicaments, I essayed in such wise to understand, O my God, Thy wonderful and"}, {"id": "card_n_3881d3254abb", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_030: But is it so, as one remembers Carthage who hath seen it?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But is it so, as one remembers Carthage who hath seen it? No. For a happy life is not seen with the eye, because it is not a body. As we remember numbers then? No. For these, he that hath in his knowl"}, {"id": "card_n_fa6ce7542cd8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_022: For when he wondered that I, whom he esteemed not slightly, should stick so f...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For when he wondered that I, whom he esteemed not slightly, should stick so fast in the birdlime of that pleasure, as to protest (so oft as we discussed it) that I could never lead a single life; and "}, {"id": "card_n_d882a63e485f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_005: There was in those days a wise man, very skilful in physic, and renowned ther...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "There was in those days a wise man, very skilful in physic, and renowned therein, who had with his own proconsular hand put the Agonistic garland upon my distempered head, but not as a physician: for "}, {"id": "card_n_d9dcfdd57329", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_013: He, not forsaking that secular course which his parents had charmed him to pu...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "He, not forsaking that secular course which his parents had charmed him to pursue, had gone before me to Rome, to study law, and there he was carried away incredibly with an incredible eagerness after"}, {"id": "card_n_179a4d8207ae", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_011: Hear, O God.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure fro"}, {"id": "card_n_a204865c75a5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_008: Who can recount all Thy praises, which he hath felt in his one self?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Who can recount all Thy praises, which he hath felt in his one self? What diddest Thou then, my God, and how unsearchable is the abyss of Thy judgments? For long, sore sick of a fever, he lay senseles"}]}