 | Marcius Willson - 1854 - 622 oldal
...famous Alexandrian library, the caliph replied, " If these writings agree with the Koran, they s;re useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and should bi destroyed. !5^ The sentence was executed with blind obedience, and this vast store of ancient... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1855 - 628 oldal
...disposition he should make of the famous Alexandrian library, the caliph replied, " If these writings agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not...preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and should be destroyed." The sentence was executed with blind obedience, and this vast store of ancient... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 496 oldal
...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 disagree, they are pernicious and " ought to be destroyed." The sentence was executed with blind obedience : the volumes of paper or... | |
 | Nathan Lewis Rice - 1855 - 234 oldal
...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... | |
 | 1856 - 580 oldal
...the ignorant and fanatical caliph, to whom he applied for instructions, ordered it to be destroyed. ' If,' said he, ' these writings of the Greeks agree...preserved; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.' The sentence of destruction was executed with blind obedience. The volumes... | |
 | William O. Blake - 1856 - 1124 oldal
...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...preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.' By himself and his generals this ferocious conqueror added Syria, Phoanicia,... | |
 | 1856 - 986 oldal
...obedience to the well known dictum of the Caliph Omar, that " if the books agree with the book of tiod, they are useless and need not be preserved; if they disagree, they ore M?rnicious and ought to be destroyed:" a story, however, which ests on no very valid foundation,... | |
 | William Chambers - 1857 - 824 oldal
...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...preserved; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.' By himself and his generals this ferocious conqueror added Syria, Phoenicia,... | |
 | Edward Edwards - 1859 - 940 oldal
...ignorant and fanatical Omar ordered that the Library should be destroyed, in the famous words: 'If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran,...preserved : if they disagree they are pernicious and ought to be distroyed." ' The sentence was executed with blind obedience. The volumes of paper or parchment... | |
 | 1859 - 588 oldal
...Omar. The great Alexandrian library, which was destroyed by this fanatic, on the famous plea, that " if these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran,...and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they arc pernicious, and ought to be destroyed," was probably a library of comparatively modern formation.... | |
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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. 
