 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 488 pages
...Omar was inspired by the ig- CHAP, norance of a fanatic. " If these writings of the Greeks agree LI" with the book of God, they are useless and need not be " preserved : if they disagree, they are peruicious and ought " to be destroyed. " The sentence was executed with blind obedience : the volumes... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 526 pages
....consent of the caliph ; and the well-known answer of Omar was inspired by the ignorance of a fanatic. " If these writings of the " Greeks agree with the book...they " disagree, they are pernicious and ought to be F f 4 " destroyed." . * Many treatises of this lover of labour (BOTTOM?) are still extant ; but for... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 280 pages
...this celebrated Library, is well known. " If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, or book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." They were accordingly distributed among the 4000 baths of the city, and six months were barely sufficient... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bibliographical literature - 1814 - 454 pages
...ignorance of a fanatic. " If" (replied he) " these writings of the Greeks agree with " the Koran, or Book of God, they are useless " and need not be preserved;...they disagree, " they are pernicious and ought to be de" stroyed." — The sentence of destruction was executed with blind obedience : the volumes of paper... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 488 pages
...these writings u " of the Greeks agree with the hook of God, they are ^^^^^ et useless and need not he preserved : if they disagree, " they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed." The sentence was executed with blind ohedience : the volumes of paper or parchment were distributed... | |
 | David Ramsay - World history - 1819 - 386 pages
...to alienate the minutest object, without the consent of the caliph. To this request, Omar answered, "if these writings of the Greeks agree with the book...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." This sentence was executed with blind obedience; the volumes of paper or parchment were distributed... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1820 - 528 pages
...consent of the caliph; and the well-known answer o( Omar was inspired by the ignorance of a fanatic. " If " these writings of the Greeks agree with the "...need not " be preserved : if they disagree, they are per" nicious and ought to be destroyed." The sentence was executed with blind obedience : the volumes... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 540 pages
...consent of the caliph ; and the well-known answer of Omar was inspired by the ignorance of a fanatic. " If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book...disagree, they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed." The sentence was executed with blind obedience: the volumes of paper or parchment were distributed... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Geography - 1823 - 512 pages
...Omar, who said, with regard to the library ; " if these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, they are .useless, and need not be preserved ; if...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." Alexandria is divided into old and new town. The latter extends along the coast, and is the centre... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 pages
...consent of the Caliph, and the well known answer of Omar was inspired by the ignorance of a fanatic: "If these writings of " the Greeks agree with the...need not be preserved; if they disagree, " they are pei'nicious, and ought to be destroyed." The sentence was executed with blind obedience: the volumes... | |
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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. 
