The History of Chess: From the Time of the Early Invention of the Game in India Till the Period of Its Establishment in Western and Central Europe |
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... reader will find all that can be said on a subject on which our information is so scanty . The author modestly signs himself H. C .; but assuredly he has no occasion for withholding from us his full length name He is a most sound ...
... reader will find all that can be said on a subject on which our information is so scanty . The author modestly signs himself H. C .; but assuredly he has no occasion for withholding from us his full length name He is a most sound ...
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... reader may understand the difficulties that Sir William Jones had to encounter , I may mention that from the earliest times on record till towards the close of the last century , the Sanskrit language continued to be the sacred and ...
... reader may understand the difficulties that Sir William Jones had to encounter , I may mention that from the earliest times on record till towards the close of the last century , the Sanskrit language continued to be the sacred and ...
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... reader will find ample confirmation in the fifth and sixth books of Arian's History , which so graphically detail the expedition of Alexander from Kabul across the Panjab , and thence downwards along the Indus till his return to Persia ...
... reader will find ample confirmation in the fifth and sixth books of Arian's History , which so graphically detail the expedition of Alexander from Kabul across the Panjab , and thence downwards along the Indus till his return to Persia ...
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... reader's belief ; but , in what we may call the heroic or poetic age of Hindu history , we find the game familiarly spoken of in the Purānas , as then known and practised . The authenticity of these poetic histories is much on a par ...
... reader's belief ; but , in what we may call the heroic or poetic age of Hindu history , we find the game familiarly spoken of in the Purānas , as then known and practised . The authenticity of these poetic histories is much on a par ...
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... reader what I believe to be a faithful trans- lation of such portions of the Sanskrit text as bear upon our immediate inquiry . I must mention , however , that the original , is , in many places , so extremely concise in its style ...
... reader what I believe to be a faithful trans- lation of such portions of the Sanskrit text as bear upon our immediate inquiry . I must mention , however , that the original , is , in many places , so extremely concise in its style ...
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