...executed with blind' obedience ; the volumes of paper or parchment were distributed to the four thousand baths of the city, and such was their incredible multitude,...sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel." But two centuries before this period the northern hordes of barbarians had invaded the Roman empire,...

...executed with blind obedience ; the volumes of paper or parchment were distributed to the four thousand baths of the city, and such was their incredible multitude,...sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel." and preserving of the remains of the dispersed libraries, the world owes a debt of gratitude. The few...

...executed with blind obedience; the volumes of parchment or paper were distributed to the four thousand baths of the city; and such was their incredible multitude,...months were barely sufficient for the consumption of the precious fuel. When Europeans first visited the Mexican Indians, they found to their astonishment...

...destroyed." Accordingly they were employed to heat "the 4000 baths of the city ; and such was the number, that six months were barely sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel. Gibbon discredits the statement, but he does not suggest, which he might with effect, that as we may reasonably...

...executed with blind obedience : the volumes were distributed for fuel to the four thousand baths ; and such was their incredible multitude, that six months were barely sufficient for their consumption:" Other disasters had befallen the Alexandrian library, but this was the consummation....

...Accordingly they were employed to heat the four thousand baths of the city; and such was the number, that six months were barely sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel. The historian Gibbon discredits the statement ; but he does not suggest, which he might with effect,...

...executed with blind obedience : the volumes of paper or parchment were distributed to the four thousand baths of the city ; and such was their incredible...sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel. Since the Dynasties of Abulpharagius "6 have been given to the world in a Latin version, the tale has...

...Ibn Khaldoou. as quoted by Sylvestre de Sary in his notes to Ahilii-1-I/attif, nbi infra. ,.,,K .. multitude that six months were barely sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel — For my own part. II " i.,"ran,- } aul strongly tempted to deny both fact and consequence — The...

...Accordingly, it is said, they were employed to heat the 4000 baths of the city ; and such was their number, that six months were barely sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel. (Gibbon, chap, fi.) Gibbon has employed his ingenuity to discredit this account, which in itself appears by...

...Accordingly, it is said, they were employed to heat the 4000 baths of the city ; and such was their number, that six months were barely sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel. (Gibbon, chap, li.) Gibbon has employed his ingenuity to discredit this account, which in itself appears by...