The learned have not known it because on reading this they have thought of the Lord not as God but only as Man.
— from Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Emanuel Swedenborg
Pro-claimed himself King of the Serbians; eldest son of King Voukashin, 6 , 59 ; aids Turks against the Christians, 6 ; killed in battle of Rovina, 6 ; endowed with superhuman strength, and presented with a wonderful courser, Sharatz, by a veela, 17 ; his guests on his Slava day, 45 ; the goussle and exploits of, 57 ; Queen Helen mother of, 59 ; traditional son of a veela and a Zmay, 59 ; the most beloved of Serbian heroes, 59 , 60 ; virtues of, 59 ; tradition extols him as faithful defender of Prince Ourosh, 61 ; Serbian belief that he will reappear to reestablish the mediæval Empire, 64 ; his supposed appearance at the battle of Prilip (1912), 64 , 65 ; tells whose the Empire shall be, 65 –71; cursed by his father, 71 ; the Moor and, 72 –81; the Sultana’s dream concerning, 74 ; wedding tax abolished by, 82 –86; Bogdan the Bully and, 87 –89; General Voutcha and, 89 –94; wedding procession of, 94 –100; the Moorish princess and, 100 –102;
— from Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians by Woislav M. Petrovitch
The keep is built of rubble, and its Norman buttresses (it has several later ones) project about a foot.
— from The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles. by Ella S. Armitage
"Ought I to have kept it back, or repined at restoring the loan?"
— from The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles by H. J. (Harry John) Wilmot-Buxton
On the other Land the treasure-trove may be nearly in someone's possession: and then if anyone take it with the intention, not of keeping it but of returning it to the owner who does not look upon such things as unappropriated, he is not guilty of theft.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
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