The sentence was 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 that six months were barely sufficient for the consumption of this precious... The Nile: Notes for Travellers in Egypt - Page 252by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1901 - 671 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edward Gibbon - 1870 - 458 pages
...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... | |
| Great Britain. Patent Office - 1870 - 256 pages
...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,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 632 pages
...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... | |
| 1876 - 732 pages
...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... | |
| 1876 - 740 pages
...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... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1883 - 872 pages
...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.... | |
| John Drew Bate - 1884 - 422 pages
...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 :ยง it is doubted, as everyone knows, by Gibbon, but received... | |
| Prince Ibrahim-Hilmy (son of Ismail, Khedive of Egypt) - 1886 - 414 pages
...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... | |
| Prince Ibrahim-Hilmy (son of Ismail, Khedive of Egypt) - 1886 - 414 pages
...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... | |
| American Antiquarian Society - 1888 - 566 pages
...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.... | |
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