{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_010: But was not either", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_b7fc6c790623", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_010: But was not either the Father, or the Son, borne above the waters?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But was not either the Father, or the Son, borne above the waters? if this means, in space, like a body, then neither was the Holy Spirit; but if the unchangeable supereminence of Divinity above all t"}, {"id": "card_n_87f56f3b9fe0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_022: But now, my God, cry Thou aloud in my soul; and let Thy truth tell me, \"Not s...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But now, my God, cry Thou aloud in my soul; and let Thy truth tell me, \"Not so, not so. Far better was that first study.\" For, lo, I would readily forget the wanderings of Aeneas and all the rest, rat"}, {"id": "card_n_8ef01c62e191", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_020: Lastly, in the very fever of my irresoluteness, I made with my body many such...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lastly, in the very fever of my irresoluteness, I made with my body many such motions as men sometimes would, but cannot, if either they have not the limbs, or these be bound with bands, weakened with"}, {"id": "card_n_b51fbf0407f9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_030: And what did it profit me, that all the books I could procure of the so-calle...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And what did it profit me, that all the books I could procure of the so-called liberal arts, I, the vile slave of vile affections, read by myself, and understood? 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But I deceived her,"}, {"id": "card_n_4025b1b3744f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_003: And now this earth was invisible and without form, and there was I know not w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And now this earth was invisible and without form, and there was I know not what depth of abyss, upon which there was no light, because it had no shape. 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Myself verily either way; yet more myself, in that which I approve"}, {"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_366b49ec885d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_015: But thus far was Alypius to be instructed.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But thus far was Alypius to be instructed. For forthwith, O Lord, Thou succouredst his innocency, whereof Thou alone wert witness. 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So then endeavouring t"}, {"id": "card_n_9d11f44229d4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_001: O Lord, I am Thy servant; I am Thy servant, and the son of Thy handmaid: Thou...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O Lord, I am Thy servant; I am Thy servant, and the son of Thy handmaid: Thou hast broken my bonds in sunder. I will offer to Thee the sacrifice of praise. Let my heart and my tongue praise Thee; yea,"}, {"id": "card_n_0c0f0490039b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_006: And thus much, either from or through him, Thou conveyedst to me, and traceds...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And thus much, either from or through him, Thou conveyedst to me, and tracedst in my memory, what I might hereafter examine for myself. But at that time neither he, nor my dearest Nebridius, a youth s"}, {"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_dab5ead8699d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_013: My zeal for the writings of Manichaeus being thus blunted, and despairing yet...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "My zeal for the writings of Manichaeus being thus blunted, and despairing yet more of their other teachers, seeing that in divers things which perplexed me, he, so renowned among them, had so turned o"}, {"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_2fcd81d6862d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_014: But as yet by faith and not by sight, for by hope we are saved; but hope that...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But as yet by faith and not by sight, for by hope we are saved; but hope that is seen, is not hope. 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