 | Henry Nettleship - 1895 - 336 pages
...we should have accepted a dilemma like that attributed to the Mohammedan conqueror of Alexandria, ' 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 destroyed.' This feeling still... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 478 pages
...conqueror. Amrou was inclined to gratify the wish of the grammarian, but his rigid integrity refused to alienate the minutest object without the consent...with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." The sentence was executed... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1899 - 640 pages
...was inclined to gratify the wish of the grammarian, but his rigid integrity refused to alienate die minutest object without the consent of the caliph...with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved • if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be de Btroyed." The sentence was... | |
 | William Basil Worsfold - 1899 - 424 pages
...surnamed Philoponus, had interceded, but when he had referred the matter to the Khalif, Omar replied, " 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 destroyed." In accordance with... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 570 pages
...conqueror. Amrou was inclined to gratify the wish of the grammarian, bnt his rigid integrity refused to alienate the minutest object without the consent...with the book of God, they are useless and need not be preserved; if they disagree, they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed." The sentence was executed... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 676 pages
...Amrou was inclined to gratify the wish of the grammarian, but his rigid integrity refused to alien ate the minutest object without the consent of the caliph;...with the book of God, they are useless and need not be preserved: if they disagree, they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed." The sentence was executed... | |
 | 1901 - 1226 pages
...unfortunate, for in 640 AD the Saracens, under the Caliph Omar, invaded Alexandria. The caliph reasoned that "if these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they ought to be destroyed"; so he burned the beautiful library, and... | |
 | John Edwin Sandys - 1903 - 750 pages
...conqueror felt constrained to consult the Caliph, and that the Caliph made the well-known reply : — ' 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 destroyed '. It is added that... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 698 pages
...conqueror. Amru was inclined to gratify the wish of the grammarian, but his rigid integrity refused to alienate the minutest object without the consent...with the book of God, they are useless and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." The sentence was... | |
 | Arthur Naylor Wollaston - 1905 - 586 pages
...the preservation of which would have lent glory to his reign, and immortality to his moderation : " 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 destroyed." So the incomparable... | |
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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 destroyed. 
