 | Edward Budge - 1850 - 394 頁
...brief glance at the history of the Abyssinian church, Gibbon makes this remarkable observation — 'Encompassed on all sides by the enemies of their...forgetful of the world by whom they were forgotten. — Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, c. 47. the case of men of enthusiastic soul and ardent temperament,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 496 頁
...pious Theodora has established in that sequestered church the faith and discipline of the Jacobites.116 Encompassed on all sides by the enemies of their religion,...^Ethiopians slept near a thousand years, forgetful of the •me world, by whom they were forgotten. They were awakened h^AbySa, ty tne Portuguese, who, turning... | |
 | John Nevins Andrews - 1873 - 546 頁
...supremacy, they were lost sight of by the nations of Europe. "Encompassed on all sides," says Gibbon, " by the enemies of their religion, the Ethiopians slept...forgetful of the world, by whom they were forgotten." s In the latter par* of the fifteenth century they were again brought to the knowled1re of the world... | |
 | John Nevins Andrews - 1873 - 546 頁
...supremacy, they were lost sight of by the nations of Europe. "Encompassed on all sides," says Gibbon, " by the enemies of their religion, the Ethiopians slept...thousand years, forgetful of the world, by whom they were forgotten."2 In the latter part of the fifteenth century, they were again brought to the knowledge... | |
 | 1880 - 786 頁
...the terse phrase of Gibbon, " The Ethiopians, encompassed by the enemies of thoir religion, slept for near a thousand years, forgetful of the world by whom they were forgotten." Yet at home, as we painfully gather from their legends, there was no lack of fight and turmoil. Thus,... | |
 | John Nevins Andrews - 1887 - 644 頁
...supremacy, they were lost sight of by the nations of Europe. " Encompassed on all sides," says Gibbon, " by the enemies of their religion, the Ethiopians slept...forgetful of the world, by whom they were forgotten." e7 In the latter part of the fifteenth century, they were again brought to the knowledge of the world... | |
 | 1888 - 980 頁
...; so that, as Gibbon says, " encompassed by the enemies of their religion, the Ethiopians slept for near a thousand years, forgetful of the world by whom they were forgotten." About AD 960, a Jewish princess, Judith, conceived the bloody design of murdering all the members of... | |
 | Thomas Spencer Baynes - 1890 - 976 頁
...; so that, as Gibbon says, " encompassed by the enemies of their religion, the Ethiopians slept for near a thousand years, forgetful of the world by whom they were forgotten." About AD 960, a Jewish princess, Judith, conceived the bloody design of murdering all the members of... | |
 | James Theodore Bent, David Heinrich Müller, John George Garson - 1893 - 384 頁
...generations from intercourse with the outer world. Here, as Gibbon says, ' the Ethiopians had slept for near a thousand years, forgetful of the world by whom they were forgotten.' Its past for us is one mass of legend concerning bygone grandeur almost impossible for us to unravel... | |
 | Alexander Wilmot - 1896 - 294 頁
...ridiculous. As Gibbon says, ' Encompassed by the enemies of their religion, the Ethiopians slept for a thousand years, forgetful of the world, by whom they were forgotten ' " (p. 179). " The first object to be seen on approaching Aksum is a tall monolith, twenty feet in... | |
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Encompassed on all sides by the enemies of their religion, the Ethiopians slept near a thousand years, forgetful of the world, by whom they were forgotten. 
