"Lxxiv" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of fate—clear, express, and emphatic—is fully set forth. The Koran resorts to no euphemism or circumlocution in declaring it. Thus, in Sura lxxiv. 3, 4, we read: "Thus doth God cause to err whom he pleases, and directeth whom he pleases." Again, Sura xx. 4, says: "The fate of every man have we bound round his neck." As is well known, fatalism as a practical doctrine of life has passed into all Mohammedan society. "Kismet" (it is fated) ...
— Oriental Religions and Christianity • Frank F. Ellinwood
... Sec. LXXIV. I have before had occasion (Vol. I. Chap. XIII. Sec. VII.) to note some manifestations of this energy or fixedness; but it must be still more attentively considered here, as it shows itself throughout the whole structure and decoration of Gothic work. Egyptian and Greek ...
— The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3) • John Ruskin |
