A Visit to Abyssinia, Vol. 1 of 2
Author | : W. Winstanley |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2016-10-26 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781334070211 |
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Excerpt from A Visit to Abyssinia, Vol. 1 of 2: An Account of Travel in Modern Ethiopia The Christianity of the country is a cere monial rather than a belief, and inculcates no guiding principles to integrity of life. A chronic state of lawlessness pervades the king dom, and the tenure of sovereign power is now as ever precarious; an absence of interest in the preservation of peace, inseparable from undeveloped industry, extends to all save those in immediate official position, and the bulk of the male inhabitants live in idleness, hangers on of some district or provincial magnate. Royalty in Abyssinia, as elsewhere, incurs the penalty attendant on greatness, and in muchviii preface. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.