 | William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 744 pages
...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 Gibbon, who has placed... | |
 | 1861 - 980 pages
...books of the Greeks agree with tho 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." They were distributed for the purpose of heating the baths, and in six months were... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Australia - 1842 - 828 pages
...this net is worth preserving: " If these writings," he said, "agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." By himself and his generals, this ferocious conqueror added Syria, Phoenicia, Mesopotamia, Chaldea,... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1843 - 456 pages
...answer was thus conceived : " If the 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." In compliance with this order, adds the same writer, " the contents of the library were distributed... | |
 | James Ewing Cooley - Arabian Peninsula - 1843 - 668 pages
...said, " If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God (ie the Koran), they are useless, and need not be preserved : if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." Gibbon, however, after giving the account of its destruction by the followers of Mohammed, says : "... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1843 - 462 pages
...conceived : " If the 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." In compliance with this order, adds the same writer, " the contents of the library were distributed... | |
 | American literature - 1860 - 620 pages
...on the famous plea, that " 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," was probably a library of comparatively modern formation. This, however is an obscure subject, the... | |
 | John Price Durbin - Middle East - 1845 - 408 pages
...Alexandria : " If these books agree with the Koran, they are useless, EDICT FOR AN IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. 271 and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." The third grand measure of the Sultan is contained in a recent imperial proclamation, which, if it... | |
 | Martin Ruter - Church history - 1845 - 458 pages
..." If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and deserve not to be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." The sentence was executed with blind obedience ; and such was the incredible number of the volumes,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 838 pages
...by his sword. " If, said he. " these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and must be destroyed." The decree was issued, and the four thousand baths of the city are said to have... | |
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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. 
