...was executed with blind obedience : the volumes of paper or parchment were distributed to the 4000 baths of the city ; and such was their incredible...sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel. Since the Dynasties of Abulpharagius have been given to the world in a Latin version, the talc has...

...it is said, they were employed to " heat the 4,000 baths of the city ; and such was their number, " that six months were barely sufficient for the consumption of " this precious fuel " (Penny Cycl.). This account may or may not be true, but at all events the library was dispersed,...

...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 ot Abulpharagius 116 have been given to the world in a Latin version, the tale...

...papyrus or parchment were distributed among the four thousand baths of ihe city, and such was their multitude that six months were barely sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel." If Egypt claims the glory of having established the Earliest Libraries that the world remembers to...

...papyrus or parchment were distributed among the four thousand baths of the city, and such was their multitude that six months were barely sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel." If Egypt claims the glory of having established the Earliest Libraries that the world remembers to...

...of God, they are useless and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious and aught to be destroyed." The sentence was executed with blind...for the consumption of this precious fuel. (Gibbon, cap. 51.) Similar to this was the destruction of the library in the Basilica of the Emperors at Constantinople....

...for fuel instead of wood.' However this may be, such was the almost incredible quantity of literature that six months were barely sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel.J The story is given by Abu'l-Faragius :§ it is doubted, as everyone knows, by Gibbon, but received...

...Accordingly, it is said, they were employed to heat the 4,000 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...

...Accordingly, it is said, they were employed to heat the 4,000 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...

...sentence was executed with blind obedience. The volumes of paper or parchment were distributed to the four baths of the city, and such was their incredible multitude...sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel. For my own part I am strongly tempted to deny both fact and consequence," says Gibbon in conclusion....