{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_030: Which words I had h", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_beece41e2e3d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_008: But how didst Thou speak?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But how didst Thou speak? In the way that the voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son? For that voice passed by and passed away, began and ended; the syllables sounded and passed a", "authority_tier": "father", "source": "Augustine, Confessions (c. AD 400)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_38b69589ebda", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_028: Not one whit more easily are the words learnt for all this vileness; but by t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Not one whit more easily are the words learnt for all this vileness; but by their means the vileness is committed with less shame. 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And therefore most times, is the poverty of human understanding copious in words, because ", "authority_tier": "father", "source": "Augustine, Confessions (c. AD 400)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_de2723a71c8d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_029: Bear with me, my God, while I say somewhat of my wit, Thy gift, and on what d...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Bear with me, my God, while I say somewhat of my wit, Thy gift, and on what dotages I wasted it. For a task was set me, troublesome enough to my soul, upon terms of praise or shame, and fear of stripe", "authority_tier": "father", "source": "Augustine, Confessions (c. 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Now, in those melodies which Thy words breathe soul into, when sung with a sweet and attuned voice,", "authority_tier": "father", "source": "Augustine, Confessions (c. AD 400)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_5e19604c13f8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_031: These things then being heard and perceived, according to the weakness of my ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "These things then being heard and perceived, according to the weakness of my capacity (which I confess unto Thee, O Lord, that knowest it), two sorts of disagreements I see may arise, when a thing is ", "authority_tier": "father", "source": "Augustine, Confessions (c. 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