| Kathleen Knox - 1882 - 156 pages
...The place which the wisdom or policy of antiquity had destined for the residence of the Abyssinian princes, was a spacious valley in the kingdom of Amhara,...surrounded on every side by mountains, of which the summits overhang the middle part. The only passage by which it could be entered was a cavern that passed under... | |
| William Beckford - 1883 - 454 pages
...The place which the wisdom or policy of antiquity had destined for the residence of the Abyssinian princes, was a spacious valley in the kingdom of Amhara,...surrounded on every side by mountains, of which the summits overhang the middle part. The only passage by which it could be entered was a cavern that passed under... | |
| William Beckford - 1883 - 452 pages
...The place which the wisdom or policy of antiquity had destined for the residence of the Abyssinian princes, was a spacious valley in the kingdom of Amhara,...surrounded on every side by mountains, of which the summits overhang the middle part. The only passage by which it could be entered was a cavern that passed under... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1891 - 286 pages
...policy of antiquity had destined for the -residence of the Abyssinian princes, was a spacious valley8 in the kingdom of Amhara, surrounded on every side by mountains, of which the summits over5 hang the middle part. The only passage by which it could be entered, was a cavern that passed... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 pages
...The place which the wisdom or policy of antiquity had destined for the residence of the Abyssinian princes was a spacious valley in the kingdom of Amhara,...surrounded on every side by mountains, of which the summits overhang the middle part. The only passage by which it could be entered was a cavern that passed under... | |
| California. State Board of Education - 1893 - 248 pages
...place in which this palace was situated was a spacious valley, surrounded on every side by mountains. The only passage by which it could be entered was a cavern that passed under a rock. The outlet of the cavern was concealed by a thick wood, and the mouth, which opened into the valley,... | |
| James Baldwin - 1897 - 492 pages
...The place which the wisdom or policy of antiquity had destined for the residence of the Abyssinian princes was a spacious valley in the kingdom of Amhara, surrounded on every side by mountains, o of which the summits overhang the middle part. The only passage by which it could be entered was... | |
| James Baldwin - 1897 - 252 pages
...The place which the wisdom or policy of antiquity had destined for the residence of the Abyssinian princes was a spacious valley in the kingdom of Amhara, surrounded on every side by mountains, /& 5 of which the summits overhang the &£' middle part. The only passage by which it could be entered... | |
| 1898 - 646 pages
...Valley of " Rasselas." This is very probably the case, and that notwithstanding the fact that the " spacious valley in the kingdom of Amhara, surrounded on every side by mountains," has few points of detail in accord with the place of St. Bertram's shrine. We must remember that word... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 568 pages
...The place which the wisdom or policy of antiquity had destined for the residence of the Abyssinian princes was a spacious valley in the kingdom of Amhara,...surrounded on every side by mountains, of which the summits overhang the middle part. The only passage by which it could be entered was a cavern that passed under... | |
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