 | Edward Gibbon - 1789 - 424 pagina’s
...not be preferved : if they difagree, they are " pernicious and ought to be deftroyed. " The fentence was executed with blind obedience: the volumes of paper or parchment were diftributed to the four thoufand baths of the city; and fuch was their incredible multitude, that fix... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...was 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...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... | |
 | 1811 - 550 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 - 970 pagina’s
...if they disagree, " they are pernicious and ought to be de" stroyed."—The sentence of destruction was executed with blind obedience: the volumes of...thousand baths of the city; and such was their incredible number, that six months were barely sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel 1 . § 7.... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1814 - 454 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 488 pagina’s
...these writings u " of the Greeks agree with the hook of God, they are ^^^^^ et useless and need not he preserved : if they disagree, " they are pernicious...be destroyed." The sentence was executed with blind ohedience : the volumes of paper or parchment were distributed to the four thousand baths of the city;... | |
 | 1817 - 494 pagina’s
...utterly destroyed by the order of the calif Omar, when he acquired possession of Alexandria. The*1 volumes of paper, or parchment, were distributed to the four thousand baths of the city ; and six months were barely sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel. *16. 1794. — GIBBON... | |
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