 | 1866 - 520 oldal
...fanatic decision of the Khalif Omar, — "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... | |
 | John Parker Lawson - 1866 - 846 oldal
...has often been quoted: — "If 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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 532 oldal
...fanatic decision of the Khalif Omar, — " 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... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1866 - 884 oldal
...the caliph Omar, 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... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1870 - 560 oldal
...a narrow minded dogmatism tends. ' If these 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... | |
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - 1867 - 476 oldal
...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 nre pcrnieious, and ought to be destroyed,' ' doomed them to destruction. Hiu-h was the sentence said... | |
 | World - 1868 - 528 oldal
...the fanatic decision of the Caliph Omar, "If 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... | |
 | 1868 - 540 oldal
...remarkable sentence of profound ignorance, " If these writings of the Greeks agree with the word of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." Here the Scriptures were first published to other nations by that translation... | |
 | 1869 - 826 oldal
...the fanatic decision of the Caliph Omar, " If 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Patent Office - 1870 - 256 oldal
..." decision of the Caliph Omar, — ' If these writing 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 4,000 baths of... | |
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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. 
