 | Edward Gibbon - 1789 - 424 pages
...the Caliph; and the well-known anfwer of Omar was infpired by the ignorance of a fanatic. " If thefe writings of the Greeks agree with " the book of God , they are ufelefs and need ** not be preferved : if they difagree, they are " pernicious and ought to be deftroyed.... | |
 | George Gregory - 1790 - 456 pages
...The requeft was therefore preferred to Omar ; who replied, with the fpirit of a fanatic, " Ifthefc writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are ufelefc, and deferve not to be preferved ; if they difagree, they are pernicious, gnd ought to be deftroyed."... | |
 | George Gregory - 1795 - 582 pages
...The requeft was therefore preferred to Omar, who replied, with ' the fpirit of a fanatic, " If thefe writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are ufelefs, and deferve not to be preferved ; if they difagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be deftroyed."... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 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... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1805 - 582 pages
...the same spirit which has held a great part of the globe in intellectual bondage : ' If these works agree with the book of God, they are useless and need not be preserved ; if they contradict it, they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed.' But whatever may be conceded to the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 526 pages
...Alexandria, had not been appropriated by the visit and the seal of the conqueror. Amrou was in- clined to gratify the wish of the grammarian, but his rigid...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... | |
 | 1811 - 550 pages
...Alexandrian library, on the principle, that if these writings agree with the Alcoran, styled by them the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved : if they disagree, thoy are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed. Many modern bedarkcners are of .similar dispositions... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | David Ramsay - 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... | |
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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 de stroyed. 
