{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_015: Not long had the Ch", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_ccbf2a23f514", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_018: And yet we say, \"a long time\" and \"a short time\"; still, only of time past or...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And yet we say, \"a long time\" and \"a short time\"; still, only of time past or to come. A long time past (for example) we call an hundred years since; and a long time to come, an hundred years hence. 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For that no body is moved, but in time, I hear; this Thou sayest; but that the motion of a body is time, I h"}, {"id": "card_n_1d1f86ed3862", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_035: \"Deus Creator omnium,\" this verse of eight syllables alternates between short...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Deus Creator omnium,\" this verse of eight syllables alternates between short and long syllables. The four short then, the first, third, fifth, and seventh, are but single, in respect of the four long"}, {"id": "card_n_f73877a9def8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_037: But how is that future diminished or consumed, which as yet is not?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But how is that future diminished or consumed, which as yet is not? or how that past increased, which is now no longer, save that in the mind which enacteth this, there be three things done? 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I measure the motion of a body in time; and the time itself do I not m"}, {"id": "card_n_f02c31493568", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_032: And I confess to Thee, O Lord, that I yet know not what time is, and again I ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I confess to Thee, O Lord, that I yet know not what time is, and again I confess unto Thee, O Lord, that I know that I speak this in time, and that having long spoken of time, that very \"long\" is "}, {"id": "card_n_955fa679fc0d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_018: Thou recoveredst me then of that sickness, and healedst the son of Thy handma...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thou recoveredst me then of that sickness, and healedst the son of Thy handmaid, for the time in body, that he might live, for Thee to bestow upon him a better and more abiding health. And even then, "}, {"id": "card_n_cf6928dba910", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_003: To Simplicianus then I went, the father of Ambrose (a Bishop now) in receivin...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "To Simplicianus then I went, the father of Ambrose (a Bishop now) in receiving Thy grace, and whom Ambrose truly loved as a father. To him I related the mazes of my wanderings. But when I mentioned th"}, {"id": "card_n_d1bfb33b122a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_028: But when a deep consideration had from the secret bottom of my soul drawn tog...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But when a deep consideration had from the secret bottom of my soul drawn together and heaped up all my misery in the sight of my heart; there arose a mighty storm, bringing a mighty shower of tears. 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Doubt, then, what to hold for cert"}, {"id": "card_n_c55b37eee6ab", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_016: What fruit had I then (wretched man!) in those things, of the remembrance whe...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What fruit had I then (wretched man!) in those things, of the remembrance whereof I am now ashamed? Especially, in that theft which I loved for the theft's sake; and it too was nothing, and therefore "}, {"id": "card_n_d0cb70bb0b70", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_008: What then takes place in the soul, when it is more delighted at finding or re...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then takes place in the soul, when it is more delighted at finding or recovering the things it loves, than if it had ever had them? yea, and other things witness hereunto; and all things are full"}, {"id": "card_n_73afd63688ab", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_019: Then in this great contention of my inward dwelling, which I had strongly rai...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Then in this great contention of my inward dwelling, which I had strongly raised against my soul, in the chamber of my heart, troubled in mind and countenance, I turned upon Alypius. \"What ails us?\" I"}, {"id": "card_n_8032b7b5b51f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_022: Finally, her own husband, towards the very end of his earthly life, did she g...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Finally, her own husband, towards the very end of his earthly life, did she gain unto Thee; nor had she to complain of that in him as a believer, which before he was a believer she had borne from him."}, {"id": "card_n_f175418ead13", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_012: Lo, are they not full of their old leaven, who say to us, \"What was God doing...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lo, are they not full of their old leaven, who say to us, \"What was God doing before He made heaven and earth? For if (say they) He were unemployed and wrought not, why does He not also henceforth, an"}, {"id": "card_n_d1a719fd2d81", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_020: Whence was this also, that when she had told me this vision, and I would fain...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Whence was this also, that when she had told me this vision, and I would fain bend it to mean, \"That she rather should not despair of being one day what I was\"; she presently, without any hesitation, "}, {"id": "card_n_c8995643c97a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_021: Alypius indeed kept me from marrying; alleging that so could we by no means w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Alypius indeed kept me from marrying; alleging that so could we by no means with undistracted leisure live together in the love of wisdom, as we had long desired. For himself was even then most pure i"}]}