 | Edward Edwards - Archives - 1864 - 546 pages
...be destroyed. " If," said he, " these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, or book of Allah, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." The sentence of destruction was executed with blind obedience. The volumes of parchment, or papyrus,... | |
 | Edward Edwards - 1864 - 540 pages
...instructions, ordered it — according to the well-known story — to be destroyed. " If," said he, " these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, or book of Allah, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought... | |
 | Increase Niles Tarbox - Alexandria (Egypt) - 1865 - 400 pages
...might be expected to reply: "If," said he, "these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved...they are pernicious, a'nd ought to be destroyed." The library had at this time reached again about the same size as when Ca?sar destroyed a part of it,... | |
 | James Aitken Wylie - Church history - 1865 - 296 pages
...to the flames, with tbe sapient remark, — " If 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." So says the Church of Home, when erecting a funeral pile for the learning, the arts, and the genius... | |
 | Theology - 1865 - 782 pages
...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 pernicious and ought to be destroyed." Some original minds indeed can do immortal things with few aid?. Bunyan, while writing the Pilgrim's... | |
 | John Brocklebank - 1865 - 386 pages
...these Books of the Greeks 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. Let them be burnt." So the Library perished. History declares that the Euins of Ancient Alexandria... | |
 | Albert Rhodes - Jerusalem - 1865 - 492 pages
...these books of the Greeks 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." Thus every hero has Ids day, and Alexander had his ; then the Saracen came, and the beautiful city,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 526 pages
...consequence of the fanatic decision of the Khalif Omar, — " If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved...and ought to be destroyed." Accordingly, it is said, they were employed to heat the 4000 baths of the city ; and such was their number, that six months... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 520 pages
...consequence of the fanatic decision of the Khalif Omar, — "If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved...and ought to be destroyed." Accordingly, it is said, they were employed to heat the 4000 baths of the city ; and such was their number, that six months... | |
 | John Parker Lawson - 1866 - 846 pages
...well known, and has often been quoted: — "If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." Nevertheless, the above story is disputed by several writers, and denied by Gibbon the historian, who... | |
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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. 
