{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_030: And what did it pro", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_de918342534c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_024: What, when I name forgetfulness, and withal recognise what I name?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What, when I name forgetfulness, and withal recognise what I name? whence should I recognise it, did I not remember it? I speak not of the sound of the name, but of the thing which it signifies: which"}, {"id": "card_n_5232a0af5850", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_034: Courage, my mind, and press on mightily.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Courage, my mind, and press on mightily. God is our helper, He made us, and not we ourselves. Press on where truth begins to dawn. Suppose, now, the voice of a body begins to sound, and does sound, an"}, {"id": "card_n_7242ded11ca9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_027: For the woman that had lost her groat, and sought it with a light; unless she...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For the woman that had lost her groat, and sought it with a light; unless she had remembered it, she had never found it. For when it was found, whence should she know whether it were the same, unless "}, {"id": "card_n_1d3923aa7428", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_004: For with their understanding and wit, which Thou bestowedst on them, they sea...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For with their understanding and wit, which Thou bestowedst on them, they search out these things; and much have they found out; and foretold, many years before, eclipses of those luminaries, the sun "}, {"id": "card_n_cbcebb1c3afb", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_028: But what when the memory itself loses any thing, as falls out when we forget ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But what when the memory itself loses any thing, as falls out when we forget and seek that we may recollect? 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It was the sport, which as it were tickled our hearts, that "}, {"id": "card_n_743beeda783f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_025: Thus soul-sick was I, and tormented, accusing myself much more severely than ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thus soul-sick was I, and tormented, accusing myself much more severely than my wont, rolling and turning me in my chain, till that were wholly broken, whereby I now was but just, but still was, held."}, {"id": "card_n_592b275b3694", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_021: Whence is this monstrousness?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Whence is this monstrousness? and to what end? Let Thy mercy gleam that I may ask, if so be the secret penalties of men, and those darkest pangs of the sons of Adam, may perhaps answer me. Whence is t"}, {"id": "card_n_601defb1169b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_028: And what did it profit me, that scarce twenty years old, a book of Aristotle,...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And what did it profit me, that scarce twenty years old, a book of Aristotle, which they call the ten Predicaments, falling into my hands (on whose very name I hung, as on something great and divine, "}, {"id": "card_n_c402c51af593", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_026: The very toys of toys, and vanities of vanities, my ancient mistresses, still...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The very toys of toys, and vanities of vanities, my ancient mistresses, still held me; they plucked my fleshy garment, and whispered softly, \"Dost thou cast us off? and from that moment shall we no mo"}, {"id": "card_n_aa0641f821ac", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_020: While I went over these things, and these winds shifted and drove my heart th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "While I went over these things, and these winds shifted and drove my heart this way and that, time passed on, but I delayed to turn to the Lord; and from day to day deferred to live in Thee, and defer"}, {"id": "card_n_3fb5ee50a72f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_029: How then do I seek Thee, O Lord?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "How then do I seek Thee, O Lord? For when I seek Thee, my God, I seek a happy life. I will seek Thee, that my soul may live. For my body liveth by my soul; and my soul by Thee. How then do I seek a ha"}, {"id": "card_n_934645b2b6b4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_004: But do Thou, my inmost Physician, make plain unto me what fruit I may reap by...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But do Thou, my inmost Physician, make plain unto me what fruit I may reap by doing it. For the confessions of my past sins, which Thou hast forgiven and covered, that Thou mightest bless me in Thee, "}, {"id": "card_n_3b0dc31a8c38", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_006: But I, Lord, if I would, by my tongue and my pen, confess unto Thee the whole...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But I, Lord, if I would, by my tongue and my pen, confess unto Thee the whole, whatever Thyself hath taught me of that matter,--the name whereof hearing before, and not understanding, when they who un"}, {"id": "card_n_a43d95aeec20", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_014: See, I answer him that asketh, \"What did God before He made heaven and earth?...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "See, I answer him that asketh, \"What did God before He made heaven and earth?\" I answer not as one is said to have done merrily (eluding the pressure of the question), \"He was preparing hell (saith he"}, {"id": "card_n_45c323384ad4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_005: And I strained to perceive what I now heard, that free-will was the cause of ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I strained to perceive what I now heard, that free-will was the cause of our doing ill, and Thy just judgment of our suffering ill. But I was not able clearly to discern it. So then endeavouring t"}, {"id": "card_n_5c5443043503", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_003: How did corporeal matter deserve of Thee, to be even invisible and without form?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "How did corporeal matter deserve of Thee, to be even invisible and without form? seeing it were not even this, but that Thou madest it, and therefore because it was not, could not deserve of Thee to b"}, {"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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