| Samuel Burder - 1804 - 444 páginas
...consulted. Seven such arrows were kept at the temple of Mecca : but generally in divination they make use of three only, on one of which was written, my...; and the third was blank. If the first was drawn, they looked on it as an approbation of the enterprize in question : if the second, they made a contrary... | |
| Samuel Burder - 1804 - 440 páginas
...use of three only, on one of which was written, my Lord hath commanded me ; on another, my LordTiath forbidden me ; and the third was blank. If the first was drawn, they looked on it as an approbation of the euterprize in question : if the second, they made a contrary... | |
| Samuel Burder - 1812 - 442 páginas
...consulted. Seven such arrows were kept at the temple of Mecca : but generally in divination they make use of three only, on one of which was written, my...me; and the third was blank. If the first was drawn, they looked on it as an approbation of the enterprise in question : if the second, they made a contrary... | |
| 1825 - 538 páginas
...idol, in whose presence they were consulted. Seven such arrows were kept at the temple of Mecca h; but generally in divination they made use of three...; and the third was blank. If the first was drawn, they looked on it as an approbation of the enterprise in question ; if the second, they made a contrary... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1825 - 630 páginas
...but generally in divination they made use of three only, on one of which was written My LORD /milt commanded me, — on another, My LORD hath forbidden...— and the third was blank. If the first was drawn, they regarded it as an approbation of the enterprise in question ; if the second, they made a contrary... | |
| George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 páginas
...idolatrous Arabs made use of three arrows only, on one was written, ' My Lord hath commanded me ;' and another ' My Lord hath forbidden me ;' and the third was blank. If the first was drawn, they looked upon it as an approbation of the enterprise in question ; if the second, they made a contrary... | |
| 1836 - 364 páginas
...divining arrows were kept at the temple of Mecca ; but generally in divination the idolatrous Arabs made use of three only ; on one of which was written,...me, and the third was blank. If the first was drawn, they looked on it as an approbation of the enterprise in question; if the second, they made a contrary... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1836 - 696 páginas
...consulted. Seven such arrows were kept in the temple of Mecca, but generally in divination they made ns« of three only, on one of which was written, My LORD...— and the third was blank. If the first was drawn, they regarded it as an approbation of Ine enterprise in question ; if the second, they made a contrary... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 868 páginas
...temple of Mecca ; but generally, in Divination, the idolatrous Arabs made use of three only. On one was written, ' My lord hath commanded me ;' on another,...me;' and the third was blank. If the first was drawn, they looked upon it as an approbation of the enterprise in question ; if the second, they made a contrary... | |
| John Blackburn - 1850 - 256 páginas
...temple of Mecca there were kept seven divining arrows, but in general they only made use of three, on one of which was written, My Lord hath commanded...forbidden me; and the third was blank. If the first were drawn out of the quiver, it was an approbation ; if the second, it was regarded as a prohibition... | |
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