{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_004: But I also as yet,", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_c17c03335db6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_004: But I also as yet, although I held and was firmly persuaded that Thou our Lor...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But I also as yet, although I held and was firmly persuaded that Thou our Lord the true God, who madest not only our souls, but our bodies, and not only our souls and bodies, but all beings, and all t"}, {"id": "card_n_96b813bd9ef3", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_007: For Thou, Lord, dost judge me: because, although no man knoweth the things of...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For Thou, Lord, dost judge me: because, although no man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man which is in him, yet is there something of man, which neither the spirit of man that is in "}, {"id": "card_n_93a415156425", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_023: Permit me, Lord, to seek further.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Permit me, Lord, to seek further. O my hope, let not my purpose be confounded. For if times past and to come be, I would know where they be. Which yet if I cannot, yet I know, wherever they be, they a"}, {"id": "card_n_f8e779f3628f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_016: Yet not these alone does the unmeasurable capacity of my memory retain.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Yet not these alone does the unmeasurable capacity of my memory retain. Here also is all, learnt of the liberal sciences and as yet unforgotten; removed as it were to some inner place, which is yet no"}, {"id": "card_n_3881d3254abb", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_030: But is it so, as one remembers Carthage who hath seen it?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But is it so, as one remembers Carthage who hath seen it? No. For a happy life is not seen with the eye, because it is not a body. As we remember numbers then? No. For these, he that hath in his knowl"}, {"id": "card_n_c3de19275694", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_064: Within also, within is another evil, arising out of a like temptation; whereb...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Within also, within is another evil, arising out of a like temptation; whereby men become vain, pleasing themselves in themselves, though they please not, or displease or care not to please others. Bu"}, {"id": "card_n_d77e4a5ee283", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_021: And yet, Lord, we perceive intervals of times, and compare them, and say, som...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And yet, Lord, we perceive intervals of times, and compare them, and say, some are shorter, and others longer. We measure also, how much longer or shorter this time is than that; and we answer, \"This "}, {"id": "card_n_080b793b5b78", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_006: He then had at that time sorrow, but Nebridius joy.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "He then had at that time sorrow, but Nebridius joy. For although he also, not being yet a Christian, had fallen into the pit of that most pernicious error, believing the flesh of Thy Son to be a phant"}, {"id": "card_n_4a0571faea3e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_007: In those years when I first began to teach rhetoric in my native town, I had ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In those years when I first began to teach rhetoric in my native town, I had made one my friend, but too dear to me, from a community of pursuits, of mine own age, and, as myself, in the first opening"}, {"id": "card_n_8087d5daa7d0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_003: What then have I to do with men, that they should hear my confessions--as if ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then have I to do with men, that they should hear my confessions--as if they could heal all my infirmities--a race, curious to know the lives of others, slothful to amend their own? Why seek they"}, {"id": "card_n_e8b47f718fb7", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_015: But why I went hence, and went thither, Thou knewest, O God, yet showedst it ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But why I went hence, and went thither, Thou knewest, O God, yet showedst it neither to me, nor to my mother, who grievously bewailed my journey, and followed me as far as the sea. But I deceived her,"}, {"id": "card_n_0f38cf3f9f0b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_006: I joyed also that the old Scriptures of the law and the Prophets were laid be...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I joyed also that the old Scriptures of the law and the Prophets were laid before me, not now to be perused with that eye to which before they seemed absurd, when I reviled Thy holy ones for so thinki"}, {"id": "card_n_d00550e148c0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_036: But where in my memory residest Thou, O Lord, where residest Thou there?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But where in my memory residest Thou, O Lord, where residest Thou there? what manner of lodging hast Thou framed for Thee? what manner of sanctuary hast Thou builded for Thee? Thou hast given this hon"}, {"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. As yet doth deep call unto deep, but now in the voice of Thy water-spouts. As yet doth he that saith"}, {"id": "card_n_e0fbaa82735e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_055: But by this may more evidently be discerned, wherein pleasure and wherein cur...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But by this may more evidently be discerned, wherein pleasure and wherein curiosity is the object of the senses; for pleasure seeketh objects beautiful, melodious, fragrant, savoury, soft; but curiosi"}, {"id": "card_n_ec1e106a8311", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_002: Stage-plays also carried me away, full of images of my miseries, and of fuel ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Stage-plays also carried me away, full of images of my miseries, and of fuel to my fire. Why is it, that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would no m"}, {"id": "card_n_2f9f80668791", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_007: Yet suffer me to speak unto Thy mercy, me, dust and ashes.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Yet suffer me to speak unto Thy mercy, me, dust and ashes. Yet suffer me to speak, since I speak to Thy mercy, and not to scornful man. Thou too, perhaps, despisest me, yet wilt Thou return and have c"}, {"id": "card_n_e2a1059d4f5d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_019: And to Thee is nothing whatsoever evil: yea, not only to Thee, but also to Th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And to Thee is nothing whatsoever evil: yea, not only to Thee, but also to Thy creation as a whole, because there is nothing without, which may break in, and corrupt that order which Thou hast appoint"}, {"id": "card_n_eee8cea5bd6a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_014: But this was already being laid up in his memory to be a medicine hereafter.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But this was already being laid up in his memory to be a medicine hereafter. So was that also, that when he was yet studying under me at Carthage, and was thinking over at mid-day in the market-place "}, {"id": "card_n_1505ca677942", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_023: Why then did I hate the Greek classics, which have the like tales?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Why then did I hate the Greek classics, which have the like tales? For Homer also curiously wove the like fictions, and is most sweetly-vain, yet was he bitter to my boyish taste. And so I suppose wou"}]}