 | 1866
...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
...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 - 1866
...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 - 1866 - 820 стор.
...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 - 1870
...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 - 1867 - 439 стор.
...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
...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... | |
 | 1868
...remarkable sentence of profound ignorance, " If these writings of the Greeks agree with the word of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." Here the Scriptures were first published to other nations by that translation... | |
 | 1869
...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Patent Office - 1870 - 198 стор.
..." decision of the Caliph Omar, — ' If these writing 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 4,000 baths of... | |
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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. 
