 He was not ignorant," says Abulpharagius, " that those are the elect of God, his best and most useful servants, whose lives are devoted to the improvement of their intellectual faculties. The mean ambition of the Chinese, or the Turks, may glory in the...  The Family Library (Harper). - Page 1071842Full view - About this book
 | David Ramsay - World history - 1819 - 386 pages
...their rational faculties; and that the teachers of wisdom are the true luminaries and legislators of a world which, without their aid, would again sink into ignorance and barbarism." The zeal and curiosity of Almamon were imitated by succeeding princes of the line of Abbas; their rivals,... | |
 | Michael Russell - Africa, North - 1835 - 466 pages
...make themselves masters of the rare wisdom which had exalted the countrymen of Plato and Euclid. " He was not ignorant," says Abulpharagius, " that those...Africa, who now deemed it an honour to become the patrons of the learned. The emirs of provinces were smitten with a similar emulation, and science met... | |
 | Michael Russell - Africa, North - 1837 - 358 pages
...make themselves masters of the rare wisdom which had exalted the countrymen of Plato and Euclid. " He was not ignorant," says Abulpharagius, " that those...author remarks, that, " II (Abdoulrahman) finit sa lettre, par re"presenter a ce prince qu'il nedevoit plus s'attendre & rece voir des tributs de 1'Afrique... | |
 | Michael Russell - Africa, North - 1842 - 354 pages
...make themselves masters of the rare wisdom which had exalted the countrymen of Plato and Euclid. " He was not ignorant," says Abulpharagius, " that those...author remarks, that, " II (Abdoulrahman) finit sa lettre, parr4presenter a ce prince qu'il ne devoit plus s'attendre a rece voir <!es tributs de 1'Afrique... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1846 - 764 pages
...countrymen of Plato and Euclid. "He was not ignorant," says Abulpharagius, " that those are the elect ¿f God, his best and most useful servants, whose lives...would again sink into ignorance and barbarism." The ardor of Almamoun extended itself to the Fatimites ol Africn, who now dinned it an honor to become... | |
 | John Rutherfurd Russell - Medicine - 1861 - 546 pages
...their rational faculties." . . . "The teachers of wisdom are the true luminaries and legislators of a world which, without their aid, would again sink into ignorance and barbarism." ' Acting on this belief, the wise ruler used his influence in founding schools and collecting libraries... | |
 | John William Draper - Religion and science - 1875 - 444 pages
...their rational faculties ; that the teachers of wisdom are the true luminaries and legislators of this world, which, without their aid, would again sink into ignorance and barbarism." After the example of the medical college of Cairo, other medical colleges required their students to... | |
 | William Alexander Clouston - Arabic poetry - 1881 - 564 pages
...of their rational faculties. . . The teachers of wisdom are the true luminaries and legislators of a world which without their aid would again sink into ignorance and barbarism." About this period also were erected at Bagdad and Damascus observatories for the study of astronomy.... | |
 | William Alexander Clouston - Arabic poetry - 1881 - 566 pages
...of their rational faculties. . . The teachers of wisdom are the true luminaries and legislators of a world which without their aid would again sink into ignorance and barbarism." About this period also were erected at Bagdad and Damascus observatories for the study of astronomy.... | |
 | Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - Technology - 1900 - 292 pages
...their rational faculties ; the teachers of wisdom who are the true luminaries and legislators of this world, which, without their aid, would again sink into ignorance and barbarism." * Gibbon. Professional schools were organized ; that at Cairo setting the example of stringent entrance-requirements... | |
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