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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... at rest for ever , and establish the fact that the Ethio- pians can trace their origin as well as their written script from Arabia Felix . fluence has been at work all down the east coast 14 THE SACRED CITY OF THE ETHIOPIANS.
... at rest for ever , and establish the fact that the Ethio- pians can trace their origin as well as their written script from Arabia Felix . fluence has been at work all down the east coast 14 THE SACRED CITY OF THE ETHIOPIANS.
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... trace of its influence . Probably the active contest with Mo- hammedanism , which has raged in Abyssinia for a thousand years , has been instrumental in making them adhere with a dogged determination to their tenets , and made them ...
... trace of its influence . Probably the active contest with Mo- hammedanism , which has raged in Abyssinia for a thousand years , has been instrumental in making them adhere with a dogged determination to their tenets , and made them ...
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... traces of the peculiar form of paganism on which it was grafted . In the Greek Church we have abundant instances of how many saints and many ceremonies grew out of , and represent , the con- ditions of Græco - Roman paganism as it ...
... traces of the peculiar form of paganism on which it was grafted . In the Greek Church we have abundant instances of how many saints and many ceremonies grew out of , and represent , the con- ditions of Græco - Roman paganism as it ...
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... traces of this severe remedy having been applied to them , and , probably , as the mules seem to forget it so quickly , the process is not so cruel as it looks . The heat at Gundet was most uncompromising ; so , on hearing overnight ...
... traces of this severe remedy having been applied to them , and , probably , as the mules seem to forget it so quickly , the process is not so cruel as it looks . The heat at Gundet was most uncompromising ; so , on hearing overnight ...
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... trace behind them of their influence , illustrates well the Abyssinian cha- racter , and the tenacity with which he clings to the old superstitions which have survived since the very earliest days of Christianity . This fact encourages ...
... trace behind them of their influence , illustrates well the Abyssinian cha- racter , and the tenacity with which he clings to the old superstitions which have survived since the very earliest days of Christianity . This fact encourages ...
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