 | John Brocklebank - 1865 - 386 pages
...of the Greeks agree with the Koran, the Koran is sufficient without them, therefore they need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed. Let them be burnt." So the Library perished. History declares that the Euins of Ancient Alexandria... | |
 | Albert Rhodes - Jerusalem - 1865 - 492 pages
...of the Greeks agree with the Koran, the Koran is sufficient without them, therefore they need not be preserved; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." Thus every hero has Ids day, and Alexander had his ; then the Saracen came, and the beautiful city,... | |
 | Theology - 1865 - 782 pages
...the Greeks agree with the Book of God," said the arrogant Moslem, " they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed." Some original minds indeed can do immortal things with few aid?. Bunyan, while writing the Pilgrim's... | |
 | Increase Niles Tarbox - Alexandria (Egypt) - 1865 - 400 pages
..."these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved : if they disagree, they are pernicious, a'nd ought to be destroyed." The library had at this time reached again about the same size as when Ca?sar destroyed a part of it,... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 884 pages
...AD MO. Omar argued thus : If these books agree with the Kuran they are superfluous, and need not be preserved ; If they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed. ALEXAN'DRIAN MANUSCRIPT. ОГ CODKX Л M1 чл\ ып v; •-. a famous copy of the Scriptures. connUtlng... | |
 | John Parker Lawson - 1866 - 846 pages
...these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." Nevertheless, the above story is disputed by several writers, and denied by Gibbon the historian, who... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 520 pages
...— "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." Accordingly, it is said, they were employed to heat the 4000 baths of the city ; and such was their... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 526 pages
...— " 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." Accordingly, it is said, they were employed to heat the 4000 baths of the city ; and such was their... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Periodicals - 1870 - 560 pages
...writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, (ie the Koran,) they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.' Under such conditional requisition, literature was no better off than the youth whom the ancient priestess... | |
 | World - 1868 - 528 pages
...these writings of the Greeks agree with the Book of God (the Koran), they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." Accordingly, it is said, the books were distributed to the various baths in Alexandria, to be burnt... | |
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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. 
