{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_029: And with regard to", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_5d5608da1ea3", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_029: And with regard to the understanding of the words following, out of all those...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And with regard to the understanding of the words following, out of all those truths, he chooses one to himself, who saith, But the earth was invisible, and without form, and darkness was upon the dee"}, {"id": "card_n_5acc7b8f7578", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_003: I would lay open before my God that nine-and-twentieth year of mine age.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I would lay open before my God that nine-and-twentieth year of mine age. 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That beggar-man joyed in drunkenness; Thou desiredst to joy in glory.\" What glory, Lord? 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Whereupon those difficulties vanished away, wherein he once seemed to me to contradict himself, and th"}, {"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_2d9d9ecf6173", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_011: That greediness then, wherewith I had of so long time expected that man, was ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "That greediness then, wherewith I had of so long time expected that man, was delighted verily with his action and feeling when disputing, and his choice and readiness of words to clothe his ideas. I w"}, {"id": "card_n_7aee061a6962", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_003: It was enough for me, Lord, to oppose to those deceived deceivers, and dumb p...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "It was enough for me, Lord, to oppose to those deceived deceivers, and dumb praters, since Thy word sounded not out of them;--that was enough which long ago, while we were yet at Carthage, Nebridius u"}]}