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... Asiatic characters from my work . To the Oriental scholar , such characters would be su- perfluous to the non - Oriental , useless . Besides , I am not the least ambitious of obtaining for myself that sort of vulgar reputation for ...
... Asiatic characters from my work . To the Oriental scholar , such characters would be su- perfluous to the non - Oriental , useless . Besides , I am not the least ambitious of obtaining for myself that sort of vulgar reputation for ...
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... Asiatic So- ciety , & c . - Oriental Problems by the Caliph Mu'tasīm Billāh and ' Ali Shatranji CHAPTER IX . SHATRANJ CONTINUED - Theory and Practice of the Shatranj , or Me- diæval Chess - Relative Value of the Pieces - On the Giving ...
... Asiatic So- ciety , & c . - Oriental Problems by the Caliph Mu'tasīm Billāh and ' Ali Shatranji CHAPTER IX . SHATRANJ CONTINUED - Theory and Practice of the Shatranj , or Me- diæval Chess - Relative Value of the Pieces - On the Giving ...
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... Asiatic regions during the sixth century of our era . This view has been adopted , solely on its own in- trinsic merits , by Mr. Francis Douce2 and Sir Frederic Madden , in their more recent communications on the sub- ject to the ...
... Asiatic regions during the sixth century of our era . This view has been adopted , solely on its own in- trinsic merits , by Mr. Francis Douce2 and Sir Frederic Madden , in their more recent communications on the sub- ject to the ...
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... the text , with very slight variations , is iden- tical , and evidently taken from the same original , viz . , that alluded to by Sir William Jones as an abstract from the " Bhavishya Purana , " ( vide " Asiatic HISTORY OF CHESS . 13.
... the text , with very slight variations , is iden- tical , and evidently taken from the same original , viz . , that alluded to by Sir William Jones as an abstract from the " Bhavishya Purana , " ( vide " Asiatic HISTORY OF CHESS . 13.
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... Asiatic Researches , " octavo edition , vol . ii . , p . 160 ) . We may here state , however , that Sir William Jones has given us only a very incorrect abridgement of the extract in question , and that he has at the same time deduced ...
... Asiatic Researches , " octavo edition , vol . ii . , p . 160 ) . We may here state , however , that Sir William Jones has given us only a very incorrect abridgement of the extract in question , and that he has at the same time deduced ...
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