 | Theodore Alois Buckley - Seven Wonders of the World - 1854 - 332 pages
...believed of Omar's fanatical decision : — "If these writings of the Greeks agree with the books of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved; if they...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." Accordingly they were employed to heat the four thousand baths of the city; and such was the number,... | |
 | Seven wonders - Architecture, Ancient - 1854 - 384 pages
...believed of Omar's fanatical decision : — " If these writings of the Greeks agree with the books of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." Accordingly they were employed to heat "the 4000 baths of the city ; and such was the number, that... | |
 | Nathan Lewis Rice - End of the world - 1855 - 234 pages
...answer of Omar, the caliph, was— =." 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," says Gibbon, "was executed with blind obedience : the volumes of paper or parchment... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 496 pages
...inspired by the ignorance of a fanatic. " If these writings " of the Greeks agree with the hook of God, they are useless and " need not be preserved : if...they are pernicious and " ought to be destroyed." The sentence was executed with blind obedience : the volumes of paper or parchment were distributed... | |
 | William O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1124 pages
...ashes. The reason which he gave for this act is worth preserving : — ' If these writings,' he said, ' agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.' By himself and his generals this ferocious conqueror added Syria, Phoanicia, Mesopotamia, Chaldea,... | |
 | W. O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1016 pages
...The reason which he gave for this act is worth preserving :•— c If these writings/ he said, ¿ agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not...they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.7 By himself and his generals this ferocious conqueror added Syria, Phoenicia, Mesopotamia,... | |
 | William Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1857 - 824 pages
...ashes. The reason which he gave for this act is worth preserving :—' If these writings,' he said, ( agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.' By himself and his generals this ferocious conqueror added Syria, Phoenicia, Mesopotamia, Chaldea,... | |
 | Edward Edwards - Libraries - 1859 - 898 pages
...ordered that the Library should be destroyed, in the famous words: 'If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, they are useless and need not...they disagree they are pernicious and ought to be distroyed.'' ' The sentence was executed with blind obedience. The volumes of paper or parchment were... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 624 pages
...library, which was destroyed by this fanatic, on the famous plea, that " if these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." was probably a library of comparatively modern formation. This, however is an obscure subject, the... | |
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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. 
