 | Nathan Lewis Rice - 1855 - 234 páginas
...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...pernicious and ought to be destroyed." "The sentence," says Gibbon, "was executed with blind obedience : the volumes of paper or parchment were distributed... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1855 - 628 páginas
...disposition he should make of the famous Alexandrian library, the caliph replied, " If these writings agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not...preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and should be destroyed." The sentence was executed with blind obedience, and this vast store of ancient... | |
 | William O. Blake - 1856 - 1124 páginas
...ashes. The reason which he gave for this act is worth preserving : — ' If these writings,' he said, ' agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.' By himself and his generals this ferocious conqueror added Syria, Phoanicia, Mesopotamia, Chaldea,... | |
 | W. O. Blake - 1856 - 1016 páginas
...The reason which he gave for this act is worth preserving :•— c If these writings/ he said, ¿ agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not...they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.7 By himself and his generals this ferocious conqueror added Syria, Phoenicia, Mesopotamia,... | |
 | 1856 - 986 páginas
...obedience to the well known dictum of the Caliph Omar, that " if the books agree with the book of tiod, they are useless and need not be preserved; if they disagree, they ore M?rnicious and ought to be destroyed:" a story, however, which ests on no very valid foundation,... | |
 | William Chambers - 1857 - 824 páginas
...ashes. The reason which he gave for this act is worth preserving :—' If these writings,' he said, ( agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.' By himself and his generals this ferocious conqueror added Syria, Phoenicia, Mesopotamia, Chaldea,... | |
 | Edward Edwards - 1859 - 940 páginas
...ignorant and fanatical Omar ordered that the Library should be destroyed, in the famous words: 'If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran,...they disagree they are pernicious and ought to be distroyed." ' The sentence was executed with blind obedience. The volumes of paper or parchment were... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 624 páginas
...Omar. The great Alexandrian library, which was destroyed by this fanatic, on the famous plea, that " if these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran,...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." was probably a library of comparatively modern formation. This, however is an obscure subject, the... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1861 - 792 páginas
...fanatic. "If," said he to Amrou, "these writings agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not he preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." Omar was finally assassinated. Othman succeeded Omar, in 645. He added Bactriana, and a part of Tartary,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1863 - 878 páginas
...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 aids. Bunyan, while writing the Pilgrim's... | |
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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. 
