 | John Power - 1870 - 268 oldal
...fanatic decision of the Caliph 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1870 - 458 oldal
...inspired by the ignorance of a fanatic. " If these writings of the Greeks agive 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... | |
 | Robert Henlopen Labberton - 1871 - 256 oldal
...destroyed by the Saracens, under the orders of the caliph Oinar, about 638 AD " If," said the caliph, " these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran,...preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." 224 Robert the Devil 1 WILLIAM tlie €ON^U 2 WILUAM II., 1100 PLAKTAGE3TET... | |
 | John Wycliffe - 1871 - 586 oldal
...preservation of the Alexandrian library. ' 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.' — Gibbon, ch. li. WORKS. VOL. IIí. 2. That those arc in error who dispute... | |
 | Edward Dorr Griffin Prime - 1872 - 482 oldal
...importuned to save it, Omar coolly replied, " 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." In what remains of ancient Alexandria there is nothing more interesting than... | |
 | Robert Henlopen Labberton - 1872 - 264 oldal
...AD ''If," said the caliph, "these writings of the Uret-ks agree with the Koran, they are lutvleeä, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.'* 224 2 WILLIAM 11., IlOO PI.AXTAGEXET 6 RlCn.UUl I., ЦП» The Black Prince... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1873 - 860 oldal
...the fanatic decision of the caliph 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 4,000 baths of the... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1872 - 462 oldal
...returned the following answer, characteristic of an igno< rant barbarian and fanatic : " If these writings agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, ihey are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." The sentence, as is related by numerous authors, was... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - 1873 - 336 oldal
...some modern reasonings of Christian men. "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." But such a view, though its advocates may intend, in advocating it, to do honour... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, John Gardner Wilkinson - 1873 - 546 oldal
...inspired by the ignorance of a fanatic, 'Jf 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,' " doomed them to destruction. Such was the sentence said to have been pronounced... | |
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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. 
