 | Arab countries - 1780 - 534 pages
...fecondj they made a contrary conclufion; but if the third happened to be drawn, they mixed them, and drew over again, till a decifive anfwer was given by one...arrows were generally confulted before any thing of confequence was undertaken ; as when a man was about to marry, or to go a journey, or the like. This... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Chronology, Historical - 1803 - 376 pages
...them over again, till a decisive answer was obtained. These divining arrows were generally consulted before any thing of moment was undertaken, as when a man was about to marry, or about to go a journey, or the like. master of Egypt, and carried away a great number of the inhabitants into... | |
 | Samuel Burder - Bible - 1804 - 444 pages
...till a decisive answer was given by one of the others. These divining arrows ivere generally consulted before any thing of moment was undertaken, as when a man was about to marry, or about to go a journey, or the like." SALE'S Koran, Preliminary Discourse, p. 168. No. 315. — xxiii. 15. Dyed... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1804 - 440 pages
...till a decisive answer was given by one of the others. These divining arrows were generally consulted before any thing of moment was undertaken, as when a man was about to marry, or about to go a journey, or the like." SALL'- AJ/'C,'.'!, Preliminary Discourse, p. 168. No. 315. — xxiii. 15.... | |
 | Samuel Burder - Bible - 1812 - 442 pages
...till a decisive answer was given by one of the others. These divining arrows were generally consulted before any thing of moment was undertaken, as when a man was about to marry, or about to go a journey, or the like." SALE'S Koran, Preliminary Discourse, p. 168. No. 315.— xxiii. 15. Dyed... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 630 pages
...till a decisive answer was given by one of the others. These divining arrows were generally consulted before any thing of moment was undertaken, — as when a man was about to marry, to undertake a journey, or the like. (Sale's Frei. Disc. pp. Ш, 127.) 6 1'otter's Antiquities of Greece,... | |
 | 1825 - 538 pages
...till a decisive answer was given by one of the others. These divining arrows were generally consulted before any thing of moment was undertaken ; as when a man was about to marry, c Authent. interdicimus, c.deepiscopis. dln com. ad legem praed. « Du Fresne. in Gloss. f Bava Mesia,... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1836 - 700 pages
...answer was given by one of the others. These divining arrows were generally consulted before any Mum; of moment was undertaken— as when a man was about to marry, to undertake a journey, orthelike. (Sale's Prel. Disc. pp. IX, 127.) • Potter1! Antiquities at Greece,... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1839 - 516 pages
...answer was given by one of the others. These divining arrows were generally consulted before anything of moment was undertaken, as when a man was about to marry, or about to go a journey, or the like." SALE'S Koran, Preliminary Discourse, p. 168. ARTIFICE OF FOWLERS ALLUDED... | |
 | 1856 - 692 pages
...till a decisive answer was given by one of the others. These divining arrows were generally consulted before any thing of moment was undertaken ; as when a man was about to marry, or about to go a journey, or the like.1 This superstitious practice of divining by arrows was used by the ancient... | |
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... but if the third happened to be drawn, they mixed them and drew over again, till a decisive answer was given by one of the others. These divining arrows were generally consulted before any thing of moment was undertaken; as when a man was about to... 
