 | Edward Gibbon - 1789 - 424 sider
...the Caliph; and the well-known anfwer of Omar was infpired by the ignorance of a fanatic. " If thefe writings of the Greeks agree with " the book of God , they are ufelefs and need ** not be preferved : if they difagree, they are " pernicious and ought to be deftroyed.... | |
 | George Gregory - 1790 - 456 sider
...The requeft was therefore preferred to Omar ; who replied, with the fpirit of a fanatic, " Ifthefc writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are ufelefc, and deferve not to be preferved ; if they difagree, they are pernicious, gnd ought to be deftroyed."... | |
 | George Gregory - 1795 - 582 sider
...The requeft was therefore preferred to Omar, who replied, with ' the fpirit of a fanatic, " If thefe writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are ufelefs, and deferve not to be preferved ; if they difagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be deftroyed."... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 sider
...Omar was 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 sider
...the same spirit 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 sider
...without the .consent of the caliph ; and the well-known answer of Omar was inspired by the ignorance of a fanatic. " If these writings of the " Greeks agree...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 526 sider
...without the. consent of the caliph; and the well-known answer of Omar was inspired by the ignorance of a fanatic. " If these writings of the " Greeks agree with the, book of :<£od, they are " useless and need not be preserved ; jf they " disagree, they are pernicious and... | |
 | 1811 - 550 sider
...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 sider
...this celebrated Library, is well known. " If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, or book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved...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 sider
...ignorance of a fanatic. " If" (replied he) " these writings of the Greeks agree with " the Koran, or Book of God, they are useless " and need not be preserved;...they disagree, " they are pernicious and ought to be de" stroyed." — The sentence of destruction was executed with blind obedience : the volumes of paper... | |
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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. 
