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... Europe Duncan Forbes. Subscription , 248. a Year ( payable in advance . ) SPECIMEN COPY , 6d . ALLEN'S INDIAN MAIL , AND OFFICIAL GAZETTE . Issued on the arrival of each Marseilles Mail from India and China . ( Four times a Month ...
... Europe Duncan Forbes. Subscription , 248. a Year ( payable in advance . ) SPECIMEN COPY , 6d . ALLEN'S INDIAN MAIL , AND OFFICIAL GAZETTE . Issued on the arrival of each Marseilles Mail from India and China . ( Four times a Month ...
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From the Time of the Early Invention of the Game in India Till the Period of Its Establishment in Western and Central Europe Duncan Forbes.
From the Time of the Early Invention of the Game in India Till the Period of Its Establishment in Western and Central Europe Duncan Forbes.
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... Europe Duncan Forbes. were even deemed not unworthy of being translated into the manly and energetic language of our kinsfolk of Germany . Within the last two years , I have , at leisure times , carefully revised my original sketches ...
... Europe Duncan Forbes. were even deemed not unworthy of being translated into the manly and energetic language of our kinsfolk of Germany . Within the last two years , I have , at leisure times , carefully revised my original sketches ...
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... Europe Duncan Forbes. if any one were to assert , as some shallow - brained visionaries do , in the case of Chess , that printing origi- nated among the Scythian shepherds or the Arabs of the desert , the idea would at once be scouted by ...
... Europe Duncan Forbes. if any one were to assert , as some shallow - brained visionaries do , in the case of Chess , that printing origi- nated among the Scythian shepherds or the Arabs of the desert , the idea would at once be scouted by ...
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... Europe Duncan Forbes. 1 there would be a little less absurdity in the matter : but the Scythian shepherds ! this is too ridiculous . Another writer insists that Chess was invented either at Babylon or Palmyra - I forget which - because ...
... Europe Duncan Forbes. 1 there would be a little less absurdity in the matter : but the Scythian shepherds ! this is too ridiculous . Another writer insists that Chess was invented either at Babylon or Palmyra - I forget which - because ...
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