{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_009: At this grief my he", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_07c8246e46f5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_009: At this grief my heart was utterly darkened; and whatever I beheld was death.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "At this grief my heart was utterly darkened; and whatever I beheld was death. My native country was a torment to me, and my father's house a strange unhappiness; and whatever I had shared with him, wa"}, {"id": "card_n_5d4220bafc3a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_006: This is the fruit of my confessions of what I am, not of what I have been, to...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This is the fruit of my confessions of what I am, not of what I have been, to confess this, not before Thee only, in a secret exultation with trembling, and a secret sorrow with hope; but in the ears "}, {"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_d2e50284c7f6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_027: What answer I made her unto these things, I remember not.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What answer I made her unto these things, I remember not. For scarce five days after, or not much more, she fell sick of a fever; and in that sickness one day she fell into a swoon, and was for a whil"}, {"id": "card_n_a11b43679b2b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_016: And being thence admonished to return to myself, I entered even into my inwar...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And being thence admonished to return to myself, I entered even into my inward self, Thou being my Guide: and able I was, for Thou wert become my Helper. 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And inspire, "}, {"id": "card_n_73945193ccef", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_032: But which of us shall, among those so many truths, which occur to enquirers i...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But which of us shall, among those so many truths, which occur to enquirers in those words, as they are differently understood, so discover that one meaning, as to affirm, \"this Moses thought,\" and \"t"}, {"id": "card_c_0059da1cce6e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_ → Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sequential next in augustine_confessions."}, {"id": "card_c_00e7f325ce1f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_ → Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sequential next in augustine_confessions."}, {"id": "card_c_012176d94ac4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_ → Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sequential next in augustine_confessions."}, {"id": "card_c_012e615215d5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_ → Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sequential prev in augustine_confessions."}, {"id": "card_c_013df654e6dc", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_ → Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sequential prev in augustine_confessions."}, {"id": "card_n_25ca17495cba", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_040: Was it for his own necessities, because he said, Ye sent unto my necessity?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Was it for his own necessities, because he said, Ye sent unto my necessity? Rejoiceth he for that? Verily not for that. But how know we this? 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