 | Edward Gibbon - 1847 - 542 pages
...rigid integrity refused to alienate the minute?! object without the consent of the caliph ; and tbe well-known answer of Omar was inspired by the ignorance...If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book ol God, they are useless, anil m-cd not be preserved : if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought... | |
 | 1870 - 494 pages
...consented, since they were valueless in his eyes, but when the Caliph's permission was asked Omar replied, " if these writings of the Greeks agree with the Book of GOD, they are useless and need not he preserved ; if they disagree they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed." The parchments and... | |
 | 1849 - 586 pages
...consent of Omar. The fanaticism of the bigotted barbarian doomed it to destruction. " If," said he, " 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 deserve to be destroyed." These precious treasures... | |
 | Philip Gell - 1854 - 428 pages
...learning of ages were destroyed for ever by the reckless word of the barbarous and fanatic Omar. " 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." The sentence was... | |
 | Thomas Galland Horton - 1854 - 116 pages
...been for generations accumulating there, " Because," said the fanatical successor of the pro|ihf t, " 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 496 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..." If these writings " of the Greeks agree with the hook of God, they are useless and " need not be preserved : if they disagree, they are pernicious and... | |
 | Nathan Lewis Rice - 1855 - 234 pages
...faVor, that this inestimable treasure might be spared ; the answer of Omar, the caliph, was— =." 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." "The sentence," says... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1862 - 452 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..." If these writings " of the Greeks agree with the bock of God, they are useless and " need not be preserved : if they disagree, they are pernicious and... | |
 | 1865 - 782 pages
...to endorse the casuistry of Caliph Omar, when he consigned to the flames the Alexandrian library : " If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Book of God," said the arrogant Moslem, " they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are... | |
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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. 
