{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_026: All which things be", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_207a041c74c6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_018: And it was manifested unto me, that those things be good which yet are corrup...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And it was manifested unto me, that those things be good which yet are corrupted; which neither were they sovereignly good, nor unless they were good could be corrupted: for if sovereignly good, they "}, {"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_c4354ba46cad", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_021: And I looked back on other things; and I saw that they owed their being to Th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I looked back on other things; and I saw that they owed their being to Thee; and were all bounded in Thee: but in a different way; not as being in space; but because Thou containest all things in "}, {"id": "card_n_cc5267f21052", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_013: There are all things preserved distinctly and under general heads, each havin...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "There are all things preserved distinctly and under general heads, each having entered by its own avenue: as light, and all colours and forms of bodies by the eyes; by the ears all sorts of sounds; al"}, {"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. 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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_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_a7302e4834d8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_009: And, lo!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And, lo! my infancy died long since, and I live. But Thou, Lord, who for ever livest, and in whom nothing dies: for before the foundation of the worlds, and before all that can be called \"before,\" Tho"}, {"id": "card_n_2f98a5c4f9d0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_026: What now is clear and plain is, that neither things to come nor past are.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What now is clear and plain is, that neither things to come nor past are. 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For there are present with me, heaven, earth, sea, and whatever I could think on therein, besides what I have forgotten. There also meet I wi"}, {"id": "card_n_ec58b19c30e1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_024: What now if another should say that \"this same formlessness and confusedness ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What now if another should say that \"this same formlessness and confusedness of matter, was for this reason first conveyed under the name of heaven and earth, because out of it was this visible world "}, {"id": "card_n_2527b2ea2f96", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_037: But others, unto whom these words are no longer a nest, but deep shady fruit-...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But others, unto whom these words are no longer a nest, but deep shady fruit-bowers, see the fruits concealed therein, fly joyously around, and with cheerful notes seek out, and pluck them. For readin"}, {"id": "card_n_9de37098c61c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_018: And I, viewing and reviewing things, most wondered at the length of time from...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I, viewing and reviewing things, most wondered at the length of time from that my nineteenth year, wherein I had begun to kindle with the desire of wisdom, settling when I had found her, to abando"}]}