 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 526 pages
...inspired by the ignorance of a fanatic. " If these writings of the " Greeks agree with the book of God, they are " useless and need not be preserved ; if...they " disagree, they are pernicious and ought to be F f 4 " destroyed." . * Many treatises of this lover of labour (BOTTOM?) are still extant ; but for... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 280 pages
...celebrated Library, is well known. " If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, or book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." They were accordingly distributed among the 4000 baths of the city, and six months were barely sufficient... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bibliographical literature - 1814 - 454 pages
...fanatic. " If" (replied he) " these writings of the Greeks agree with " the Koran, or Book of God, they are useless " and need not be preserved; if they disagree, " they are pernicious and ought to be de" stroyed." — The sentence of destruction was executed with blind obedience : the volumes of paper... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 488 pages
...these writings u " of the Greeks agree with the hook of God, they are ^^^^^ et useless and need not he preserved : if they disagree, " they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed." The sentence was executed with blind ohedience : the volumes of paper or parchment were distributed... | |
 | David Ramsay - World history - 1819 - 386 pages
...caliph. To this request, Omar answered, "if these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved; if they...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." This sentence was executed with blind obedience; the volumes of paper or parchment were distributed... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 540 pages
...inspired by the ignorance of a fanatic. " If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless and need not be preserved : if they...disagree, they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed." The sentence was executed with blind obedience: the volumes of paper or parchment were distributed... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Geography - 1823 - 512 pages
...order of the caliph Omar, who said, with regard to the library ; " if these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, they are .useless, and need...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." Alexandria is divided into old and new town. The latter extends along the coast, and is the centre... | |
 | William Rae Wilson - Egypt - 1824 - 506 pages
...consideration of the Caliph. " If these books," observed Omer, in his answer, " agree with the book of God, (Koran,) they are useless, and need not be preserved...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." They were destroyed accordingly, and many are disposed to believe that a great mass of human presumption... | |
 | Selina Bunbury - 1828 - 372 pages
...ordered by the Saracen. ' If ' these writings of the Greeks,' said Omar, ' agree with the book of God, they are useless and need not be preserved ; if they...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.' In accordance with the order of supreme ignorance, the parchment volumes of Alexandria were devoted... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1831 - 750 pages
...under the Mahometan yoke. Egypt, Lybia, and Numidia, were at the same time conquered by the generate of Omar. § Amrou, one of his generals, by the order...Othman succeeded Omar, in 645. He added Bactriana, find a part of Tartary, to the Saracen empire. Upon the death of Othman, Ali, the son-in-law of Mahomet,... | |
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If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed. 
