The Sacred City of the Ethiopians: Being a Record of Travel and Research in Abyssinia in 1893Longmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 309 pages |
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... origin for the Ethiopians.1 One cannot fail , therefore , to see that the same in- 1 Mr. Murray , in his commentary on Bruce's Travels , expresses it as his opinion that the Ethiopians were of Arabian origin , but Mr. Salt differs from ...
... origin for the Ethiopians.1 One cannot fail , therefore , to see that the same in- 1 Mr. Murray , in his commentary on Bruce's Travels , expresses it as his opinion that the Ethiopians were of Arabian origin , but Mr. Salt differs from ...
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... origin . The church itself is square , and built of stone with beams stuck in to sup- port them . At the porch the wooden lintels , which the pious kiss with intense earnestness - in fact , kissing the walls and lintels of a church is a ...
... origin . The church itself is square , and built of stone with beams stuck in to sup- port them . At the porch the wooden lintels , which the pious kiss with intense earnestness - in fact , kissing the walls and lintels of a church is a ...
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... origin of their art , which unquestionably hailed from Byzantium . One sacred subject struck us as peculiarly gro- tesque : Judas , en profile , dressed in green and lilac and a striped shirt , has just cut off the head. 42 THE SACRED ...
... origin of their art , which unquestionably hailed from Byzantium . One sacred subject struck us as peculiarly gro- tesque : Judas , en profile , dressed in green and lilac and a striped shirt , has just cut off the head. 42 THE SACRED ...
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... he promised every- thing we asked him - to find us a clean hut in which to dwell , to assist us in our researches , and so forth . But I think the fact of our plebeian origin must 156 THE SACRED CITY OF THE ETHIOPIANS.
... he promised every- thing we asked him - to find us a clean hut in which to dwell , to assist us in our researches , and so forth . But I think the fact of our plebeian origin must 156 THE SACRED CITY OF THE ETHIOPIANS.
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... origin must have influenced him , for he certainly kept none of these promises ; for beyond exchanging presents , in which he got the best of it , we had very little more to do with him during our stay at Aksum . Perhaps , also , the ...
... origin must have influenced him , for he certainly kept none of these promises ; for beyond exchanging presents , in which he got the best of it , we had very little more to do with him during our stay at Aksum . Perhaps , also , the ...
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