 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 pages
...inspired by the ig- CHAP, norance of a fanatic. " If these writings of the Greeks agree LI" with the book of God, they are useless and need not be " preserved : if they disagree, they are peruicious and ought " to be destroyed. " The sentence was executed with blind obedience : the volumes... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1805 - 582 pages
...which has held a great part of the globe in intellectual bondage : ' If these works agree with the book of God, they are useless and need not be preserved ; if they contradict it, they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed.' But whatever may be conceded to the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 526 pages
...Omar was inspired by the ignorance of a fanatic. " If these writings of the " Greeks agree with the book of God, they are " useless and need not be preserved...they " disagree, they are pernicious and ought to be F f 4 " destroyed." . * Many treatises of this lover of labour (BOTTOM?) are still extant ; but for... | |
 | 1811 - 550 pages
...Alexandrian library, on the principle, that if these writings agree with the Alcoran, styled by them the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved : if they disagree, thoy are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed. Many modern bedarkcners are of .similar dispositions... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 280 pages
...fanatic Omar to his General Amrou, respecting the fate of this celebrated Library, is well known. " If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran,...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." They were accordingly distributed among the 4000 baths of the city, and six months were barely sufficient... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1814 - 454 pages
...Calif Omar, whose well known answer was dictated by the ignorance of a fanatic. " If" (replied he) " these writings of the Greeks agree with " the Koran,...they disagree, " they are pernicious and ought to be de" stroyed." — The sentence of destruction was executed with blind obedience : the volumes of paper... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1814 - 970 pages
...Calif Omar, whose well known answer was dictated by the ignorance of a fanatic. '* If" (replied he) " these writings of the Greeks agree with " the Koran,...God, they are useless " and need not be preserved j if they disagree, " they are pernicious and ought to be de" stroyed."—The sentence of destruction... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 488 pages
...these writings u " of the Greeks agree with the hook of God, they are ^^^^^ et useless and need not he preserved : if they disagree, " they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed." The sentence was executed with blind ohedience : the volumes of paper or parchment were distributed... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 540 pages
...of Omar was inspired by the ignorance of a fanatic. " If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless and need not be preserved...disagree, they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed." The sentence was executed with blind obedience: the volumes of paper or parchment were distributed... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1823 - 512 pages
...Omar, who said, with regard to the library ; " if these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, they are .useless, and need not be preserved ; if...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." Alexandria is divided into old and new town. The latter extends along the coast, and is the centre... | |
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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. 
