 | Jerónimo Lobo - 1789 - 520 pagina’s
...little more than molehills. The kingdom of Amhara is yet more mountainous, the Abyffins call thofc fteep rocks Amba. There are many of them which appear...blood-royal pafled their melancholy life, being guarded by oflicers who treated them often with great rigour and feverity. The father Balthazar Tellez tells a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1860 - 250 pagina’s
...Rasselas. Lobo says " It was on the barren summit of Ambaguexen that the princes of the blood-royal passed their melancholy life, being guarded by officers who treated them often with great rigour and severity." " To every room there was an open and a secret passage." So the original ought to have been... | |
 | Charles George Gordon - 1881 - 522 pagina’s
...towers, and bastions. It was on the barren summit of Ambaguexa that the Princes of the BloodRoyal passed their melancholy life, being guarded by officers who treated them often with great rigour and severity. •—P. 204. An English translation of this work was, as is well known, Dr. Johnson's first... | |
 | Charles George Gordon - 1885 - 530 pagina’s
...towers, and bastions. It was on the barren summit of Ambagucxa that the Princes of the BloodKoyal passed their melancholy life, being guarded by officers who treated them often with great rigour and severity." — P. 204. An English translation of this work was, as is well known, Dr. Johnson's first... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 216 pagina’s
...the barren summit of Ambaguexa in the kingdom of Amhara that the princes of the blood-royal passed their melancholy life, being guarded by officers who treated them often with great rigour and severity.' ' These steep rocks,' he adds,' the Abyssins call Amba.' On p. 259 he says that from among... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1891 - 286 pagina’s
..." on the barren summit of Ambaguexa, in the kingdom of Ambara, the princes of the bloodroyal passed their melancholy life, being guarded by officers who treated them often with great rigor and severity." The religion of the Abyssinians is a very corrupt form of Christianity. Johnson,... | |
 | Novels - 1898 - 398 pagina’s
...and bastions. It was on the barren summit of Amba-Guexa that the princes of the blood-royal passed their melancholy life, being guarded by officers, who treated them often with great rigour and severity." J " Though the kingdom of Abyssinia be so far hereditary t hat only one family can sit on... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 252 pagina’s
...' and again, " It was on the barren summit of Ambaguexa that the princes of the blood-royal passed their melancholy life, being guarded by officers who treated them often with great rigor and severity."' Here then is the historical- foundation for the confinement of the princes of... | |
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It was on the barren summit of Ambaguexa that the Princes of the BloodRoyal passed their melancholy life, being guarded by officers who treated them often with great rigour and severity. 