 | Charles Sherwill Dawe - 1874 - 282 pages
...as to the fate of this library, he replied: "If these writings agree with the Word of God (Koran), they are useless and need not be preserved; if they...disagree, they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed." In the ten years of Omar's reign " the Saracens reduced to his obedience 36,000 cities or castles,... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1874 - 624 pages
...make of the famous Alexandrian library, the caliph replied, " If these writings agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and dhould be destroyed." The sentence was executed with blind obedience, and this vast store of ancient... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 632 pages
...Gnec. torn. ix. p. 458 — 168.) A modern, (John Le Clerc,) who sometimes iiKS'imed the sapie tame. intercourse, Philoponus presumed to solicit a gift,...they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be de stroyed." The sentence was executed with blind obedience . the volumes of paper or parchment were... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1875 - 546 pages
...refused to alienate the minutest object without the consent of the caliph ; and the answer of Omar, inspired by the ignorance of a fanatic, 'If these...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed,' " doomed them to destruction. Such was the sentence said to have been pronounced by the impetuous Omar.... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1875 - 620 pages
...the ignorance of a fanatic, ' Jf these writings of the Greeks agree with the Book of God, they arc 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 by the impetuous Omar.... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1875 - 632 pages
...make of the famous Alexandrian library, the caliph replied, " If these writings agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and dhould b< destroyed." The sentence was executed with blind obedience, and this vast store of ancient... | |
 | John William Draper - 1875 - 420 pages
...khalif to ascertain his pleasure. " If," replied the khalif, " the books agree with the Koran, the "Word of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree with it, they are pernicious. Let them be destroyed." Accordingly, they were distributed among the... | |
 | 1876 - 740 pages
...Royal Library, and how the Caliph replied : " If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, they are useless and need not be preserved : if they...disagree, they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed." "Accordingly," says Gibbon — who, however, after his fashion, sneers and doubts deliberately about... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 pages
...this decision. 'If,' he said, 'these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God [the Koran], they are useless and need not be preserved : if they...disagree, they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed.' (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch. li.) L. 86. Vandals : One of the Teutonic nations which... | |
 | 1876 - 732 pages
...Royal Library, and how the Caliph replied : " If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, they are useless and need not be preserved : if they...disagree, they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed." "Accordingly," says Gibbon — who, however, after his fashion, sneers and doubts deliberately about... | |
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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. 
