 | James Aitken Wylie - Church history - 1865 - 296 pages
...the learning, the arts, and the genius of antiquity to the flames, with tbe sapient remark, — " If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran,...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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Increase Niles Tarbox - Alexandria (Egypt) - 1865 - 400 pages
...caliph replied, as such a narrow and fanatical chief of a fanatical sect 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 : if they disagree, they are pernicious,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 520 pages
...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 : if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." Accordingly, it is said, they were employed to heat the 4000 baths of the city... | |
 | John Parker Lawson - 1866 - 846 pages
...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 ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." Nevertheless, the above story is disputed by several writers, and denied by... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 526 pages
...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 : if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." Accordingly, it is said, they were employed to heat the 4000 baths of the city... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 884 pages
...the caliph Omar, AD MO. Omar argued thus : If these books agree with the Kuran they are superfluous, and need not be preserved ; If they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed. ALEXAN'DRIAN MANUSCRIPT. ОГ CODKX Л M1 чл\ ып v; •-. a famous copy... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Periodicals - 1870 - 560 pages
...a narrow minded dogmatism tends. ' 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.' Under such conditional requisition, literature was no better off than the youth... | |
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - Egypt - 1867 - 476 pages
...inspired by the ignorance of a fanatic, ' If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved; if they disagree, they nre pcrnieious, and ought to be destroyed,' ' doomed them to destruction. Hiu-h was the sentence said... | |
 | World - 1868 - 528 pages
...the fanatic decision of the Caliph Omar, "If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Book of God (the Koran), they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." Accordingly, it is said, the books were distributed to the various baths in... | |
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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. 
