 | Edward Bickersteth - 1830 - 368 pages
...disposed to say of them, as the barbarian Sultan Omar said of the famous Alexandrian Library —' If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran,...disagree, they are pernicious, and must be destroyed.' Other books have tbeir use, and are valuable in their place; but let us first take the Holy Scriptures,... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1831 - 750 pages
...ignorance of a savage, and the illiberality of a fanatic. " If," said he to Amrou, " these writings agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not...preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." Omar was finally assassinated. Othman succeeded Omar, in 645. He added Bactriana,... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1832 - 428 pages
...returned the following answer, characteristic of an ignorant barbarian and fanatic : " If these writings agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not...preserved; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." The sentence was rigorously executed ; and the whole library, said to contain... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1832 - 1094 pages
...the ignorance of a fanatic : " If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, or book of God, 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... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1838 - 440 pages
...returned the following answer, characteristic of an ignorant barbarian and fanatic : " If these writings agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not...preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." The sentence was rigorously executed ; and the whole library, said to contain... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1833 - 676 pages
...the ignorance of a savage, and the illiberality of a fanatic. "If," said he to Amrou, "these writings agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not...preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." Omar was finally assassinated. Othman succeeded Omar, in 045. lie added Bactriana,... | |
 | 1833 - 370 pages
...Arabian caliph, AD 638 ; who, being solicited to preserve it, returned the well-known answer : " If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran they are useless, and not to be preserved : if they disagree they are pernicious, and ouo-ht to be destroyed." Gibbon says,... | |
 | 1834 - 440 pages
...health, to the collecting 638; who, being solicited to preserve it, returned the well-known answer: " If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, they are useless, and not to be preserved: if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." Gibbon says,... | |
 | Phenix - 1835 - 312 pages
...ignorance of a devotee: " If," says 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 ought to be destroyed." The sentence was executed with blind obedience; the volumes of parchment or... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 612 pages
...and has been often quoted : " If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, or book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." Nevertheless the above story is disputed by_ several writers, and denied by... | |
| |
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. 
