{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations 6.10: If it were that thou hadst at on", "count": 9, "results": [{"id": "card_n_d9f0810d60fa", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations 6.10: If it were that thou hadst at one time both a stepmother, and a natural mothe...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If it were that thou hadst at one time both a stepmother, and a natural mother living, thou wouldst honour and respect her also; nevertheless to thine own natural mother would thy refuge, and recourse", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170)", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_25693c20df48", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_042: And Thou, O God, sawest every thing that Thou hadst made, and, behold, it was...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And Thou, O God, sawest every thing that Thou hadst made, and, behold, it was very good. Yea we also see the same, and behold, all things are very good. Of the several kinds of Thy works, when Thou ha", "authority_tier": "father", "source": "Augustine, Confessions (c. AD 400)", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_7cbe9eedb8d9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_011: Now then, O my Helper, hadst Thou loosed me from those fetters: and I sought ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Now then, O my Helper, hadst Thou loosed me from those fetters: and I sought \"whence is evil,\" and found no way. But Thou sufferedst me not by any fluctuations of thought to be carried away from the F", "authority_tier": "father", "source": "Augustine, Confessions (c. AD 400)", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_c39f91ab51be", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_003: Thou hadst pierced our hearts with Thy charity, and we carried Thy words as i...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thou hadst pierced our hearts with Thy charity, and we carried Thy words as it were fixed in our entrails: and the examples of Thy servants, whom for black Thou hadst made bright, and for dead, alive,", "authority_tier": "father", "source": "Augustine, Confessions (c. AD 400)", "generated": false}, {"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", "authority_tier": "father", "source": "Augustine, Confessions (c. AD 400)", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_1827d973fbb4", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_04_05: The Voice of the Beloved If thou hadst angelic purity and the holiness of hol...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The Voice of the Beloved If thou hadst angelic purity and the holiness of holy John the Baptist, thou wouldest not be worthy to receive or to minister this Sacrament. For this is not deserved by merit", "authority_tier": "father", "source": "Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ (c. 1418-1427)", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_c_e21bc17e9fd7", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_04_05: The Voice of the Beloved If thou hadst angelic purity and the holiness of hol... references John the Baptist", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions John the Baptist (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person.", "authority_tier": "engine_derived", "source": "Name mention (Easton's Bible Dictionary, PD)", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_05d9e0f37764", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations 3.15: Be not deceived; for thou shalt never live to read thy moral commentaries, no...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Be not deceived; for thou shalt never live to read thy moral commentaries, nor the acts of the famous Romans and Grecians; nor those excerpta from several books; all which thou hadst provided and laid", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170)", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_ece6ab5be240", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations 6.27: If in this kind of life thy body be able to hold out, it is a shame that thy ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If in this kind of life thy body be able to hold out, it is a shame that thy soul should faint first, and give over, take heed, lest of a philosopher thou become a mere Cæsar in time, and receive a ne", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170)", "generated": false}]}