{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_026: The very toys of to", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_b7b63fb45423", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_023: When therefore they of Milan had sent to Rome to the prefect of the city, to ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "When therefore they of Milan had sent to Rome to the prefect of the city, to furnish them with a rhetoric reader for their city, and sent him at the public expense, I made application (through those v"}, {"id": "card_n_cedbd8729980", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_024: And when our discourse was brought to that point, that the very highest delig...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And when our discourse was brought to that point, that the very highest delight of the earthly senses, in the very purest material light, was, in respect of the sweetness of that life, not only not wo"}, {"id": "card_n_768a250e88f7", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_017: But now, the more ardently I loved those whose healthful affections I heard o...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But now, the more ardently I loved those whose healthful affections I heard of, that they had resigned themselves wholly to Thee to be cured, the more did I abhor myself, when compared with them. 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