{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_040: Was it for his own", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_1f5ec501d96a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_011: When, then, we ask why a crime was done, we believe it not, unless it appear ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "When, then, we ask why a crime was done, we believe it not, unless it appear that there might have been some desire of obtaining some of those which we called lower goods, or a fear of losing them. Fo"}, {"id": "card_n_2d9d9ecf6173", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_011: That greediness then, wherewith I had of so long time expected that man, was ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "That greediness then, wherewith I had of so long time expected that man, was delighted verily with his action and feeling when disputing, and his choice and readiness of words to clothe his ideas. I w"}, {"id": "card_n_bbd0dc2b1248", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_006: To conclude, when the hour was come for making profession of his faith (which...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "To conclude, when the hour was come for making profession of his faith (which at Rome they, who are about to approach to Thy grace, deliver, from an elevated place, in the sight of all the faithful, i"}, {"id": "card_n_5f4cbdf547c1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_019: In boyhood itself, however (so much less dreaded for me than youth), I loved ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In boyhood itself, however (so much less dreaded for me than youth), I loved not study, and hated to be forced to it. Yet I was forced; and this was well done towards me, but I did not well; for, unle"}, {"id": "card_n_d882a63e485f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_005: There was in those days a wise man, very skilful in physic, and renowned ther...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "There was in those days a wise man, very skilful in physic, and renowned therein, who had with his own proconsular hand put the Agonistic garland upon my distempered head, but not as a physician: for "}, {"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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And what gained I by scoffing at them, but to be scoffed at by Thee, being insensibly and step by step drawn on to th"}, {"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_5d517d027d18", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_002: When then my mother had once, as she was wont in Afric, brought to the Church...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "When then my mother had once, as she was wont in Afric, brought to the Churches built in memory of the Saints, certain cakes, and bread and wine, and was forbidden by the door-keeper; so soon as she k"}, {"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_eae82aebe866", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_014: There is, behold, I know not what formlessness in those changes of these last...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "There is, behold, I know not what formlessness in those changes of these last and lowest creatures; and who shall tell me (unless such a one as through the emptiness of his own heart, wonders and toss"}, {"id": "card_n_124b3c2e3a8e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_030: Which words I had heard that Juno never uttered; but we were forced to go ast...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Which words I had heard that Juno never uttered; but we were forced to go astray in the footsteps of these poetic fictions, and to say in prose much what he expressed in verse. And his speaking was mo"}, {"id": "card_n_c63aae5e49f5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_008: But that heaven of heavens was for Thyself, O Lord; but the earth which Thou ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But that heaven of heavens was for Thyself, O Lord; but the earth which Thou gavest to the sons of men, to be seen and felt, was not such as we now see and feel. For it was invisible, without form, an"}, {"id": "card_n_6ef58109b156", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_031: But what marvel that I was thus carried away to vanities, and went out from T...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But what marvel that I was thus carried away to vanities, and went out from Thy presence, O my God, when men were set before me as models, who, if in relating some action of theirs, in itself not ill,"}, {"id": "card_n_4025b1b3744f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_003: And now this earth was invisible and without form, and there was I know not w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And now this earth was invisible and without form, and there was I know not what depth of abyss, upon which there was no light, because it had no shape. Therefore didst Thou command it to be written, "}, {"id": "card_n_0ed44f54f26b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_015: And therefore did I read there also, that they had changed the glory of Thy i...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And therefore did I read there also, that they had changed the glory of Thy incorruptible nature into idols and divers shapes, into the likeness of the image of corruptible man, and birds, and beasts,"}, {"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. B"}, {"id": "card_n_fdf222ba4e05", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_004: I however certainly had no opportunity of enquiring what I wished of that so ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I however certainly had no opportunity of enquiring what I wished of that so holy oracle of Thine, his breast, unless the thing might be answered briefly. But those tides in me, to be poured out to hi"}, {"id": "card_n_0dfc1b8fc688", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_010: Away with those then from my soul who say to her, \"It makes a difference when...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Away with those then from my soul who say to her, \"It makes a difference whence a man's joy is. That beggar-man joyed in drunkenness; Thou desiredst to joy in glory.\" What glory, Lord? That which is n"}]}