{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_041: So when one says, \"", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_d8df57262ee0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_033: Let no man harass me then, by saying, Moses thought not as you say, but as I ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let no man harass me then, by saying, Moses thought not as you say, but as I say: for if he should ask me, \"How know you that Moses thought that which you infer out of his words?\" I ought to take it i", "authority_tier": "father", "source": "Augustine, Confessions (c. 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Rejoiceth he for that? Verily not for that. But how know we this? Because himself says immediately, not because I desire a g", "authority_tier": "father", "source": "Augustine, Confessions (c. AD 400)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_62a3a9c2e539", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_030: I desire to know the force and nature of time, by which we measure the motion...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I desire to know the force and nature of time, by which we measure the motions of bodies, and say (for example) this motion is twice as long as that. For I ask, Seeing \"day\" denotes not the stay only ", "authority_tier": "father", "source": "Augustine, Confessions (c. 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For they have all one end, a temporal and earthly felicity, for attaining whereof they do all things, though they waver up and down with an innum", "authority_tier": "father", "source": "Augustine, Confessions (c. AD 400)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"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 ", "authority_tier": "father", "source": "Augustine, Confessions (c. 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