 | James Bruce - 1805 - Страниц: 566
...high. It is watered, however, by the industry pf the inhabitants, who, by different machines, ndse water from the stream. We are not to attribute to...found a great number of hermitages and churches half ruinied ; a fiction derived from the same source. ' Dongola was taken, and apostatized early ; and... | |
 | James Bruce - 1813 - Страниц: 546
...about the fugitive Christians in Nubia ; which fable gave rise to the first institution of the Ethiopic mission. " It drew tears, says he, from the eyes of...derived from the same source. Dongola was taken, and apdstatized early ; and the stones of hermitages and churches had long before this been carried off,... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1907 - Страниц: 812
...long since the population was Christian, and the people only lost the faith because there was no one who had zeal enough to consecrate himself to the instruction of this abandoned race. In proof of this assertion, M. Poncet mentions that on their way they passed a great number of... | |
 | Percy Falcke Martin - 1921 - Страниц: 602
...Tom's Coffee House, in Russell Street, Covent Garden, 1709." 239 Christian Country, and that it has not lost the Faith but only for want of some person...himself to the Instruction of this abandoned Nation. Upon our way we found a great number of Hermitages and Churches half ruin'd." Ethiopia at this time... | |
 | 1926 - Страниц: 428
...Brevedent, my dear Companion, is, that it is not long since this was a Christian Country, and that it has not lost the Faith but only for want of some person...himself to the Instruction of this abandoned Nation. Upon our way we found a great number of Hermitages and Churches half ruin'd. The first Roman Catholic... | |
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It drew tears, says he, from the eyes of father Brevedent, my dear companion, when he reflected, that it was not long since this was a Christian country ; and that it had not lost the faith, but only for want of some person who had zeal enough to consecrate... 