 | 1868 - 818 pages
...Greeks," answered the caliph, agree with the Koran, the Koran is sufficient without them ; therefore they need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." And destroyed they were. The Jews at one period resorted to Alexandria in prodigious numbers, 60,000... | |
 | World - 1868 - 528 pages
...according to the story generally believed, in consequence of the fanatic decision of the Caliph Omar, "If 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... | |
 | 1869 - 826 pages
...according to the story generally believed, in consequence of the fanatic decision of the Caliph Omar, " If 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... | |
 | John Power - 1870 - 268 pages
...according to the story generally believed, in consequence of the fanatic decision of the Caliph Omar : ' If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Book...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.' Accordingly, it is said, they were employed to heat the 4000 baths of the city ; and such was their... | |
 | Great Britain. Patent Office - 1870 - 256 pages
...generally believed, in consequence of the fanatic " decision of the Caliph Omar, — ' If these writing of the Greeks " ' agree with the Book of God, they...they are pernicious, and ought to " ' be destroyed.' Accordingly, it is said, they were employed to " heat the 4,000 baths of the city ; and such was their... | |
 | John Wycliffe - 1871 - 586 pages
...famous dilemma of the Caliph Omar, when consulted as to the preservation of the Alexandrian library. ' If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book...disagree, they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed.' — Gibbon, ch. li. WORKS. VOL. IIí. 2. That those arc in error who dispute the kind's rl«М to deal... | |
 | Robert Henlopen Labberton - 1871 - 256 pages
...caliph Oinar, about 638 AD " If," said the caliph, " 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." 224 Robert the Devil 1 WILLIAM tlie €ON^U 2 WILUAM II., 1100 PLAKTAGE3TET 3 IlENRY I., 1135 Mat liilda... | |
 | Edward Dorr Griffin Prime - 1872 - 482 pages
...the torch was applied by the Moslem conquerors. When importuned to save it, Omar coolly replied, " If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Book...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." In what remains of ancient Alexandria there is nothing more interesting than the site of ancient Pharos,... | |
 | Robert Henlopen Labberton - 1872 - 264 pages
...AD ''If," said the caliph, "these writings of the Uret-ks agree with the Koran, they are lutvleeä, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.'* 224 2 WILLIAM 11., IlOO PI.AXTAGEXET 6 RlCn.UUl I., ЦП» The Black Prince 12 HICHAM) II, 1400 The... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1873 - 646 pages
...Bibliot. Grsoe. torn. ix. p. 458—468.) A modern, (John Le Olere,) who sometimes ass^uned the same iniue 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... | |
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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. 
