 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 512 pages
...The place where 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 summit overhung the middle part. The only passage by which it could be entered was a cavern that passed... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse - 1903 - 480 pages
...Amhara, surrounded on every side by mountains, of which the summit overhung the middle part. The "nly passage by which it could be entered was a cavern that passed under a rock, of which it had long been disputed whether it was the work of nature or of human industry. The outlet of the cavern... | |
 | Edward Oscar Dyer - 1903 - 352 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. . . . From the mountains, rivulets descended that filled all the valley with verdure and fertility.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1906 - 260 pages
...peerless light, And o're the dark her Silver Mantle threw. ll. 29-30. the Abyssinian recess of Basselas. ' A spacious valley in the kingdom of Amhara, surrounded on every side hy mountains, of which the summits overhang the middle part. The only passage by which it could be... | |
 | 1907 - 264 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... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1916 - 758 pages
...less conspicuous as a practical reformer in one path or another. MCCARTHY, Short Hist., Ch. I, 14. i. A spacious valley in the Kingdom of Amhara, surrounded on every side by mountains. JOHNSON, Rasselas, Ch. I, 3. From the mountains on every side rivulets descended that filled all the... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 pages
...the residence of the Abyssinian princes 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... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 pages
...residence of (lie Abyssinian princes 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... | |
 | John Hookham Frere - 1926 - 156 pages
...place which the wisdom or policy of antiquity had destined for the residence of the Abyssinian prince, 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 - 1927 - 260 pages
...The place, which the wisdom or policy of antiquity had destined for the residence of the Abissinian 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... | |
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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. 
