 | Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - Asia - 1808 - 602 pages
...has employed the pens of many eminent men. Among the number, Sir William Jones has obliged the M'orld with an essay replete as usual with erudition and...and I trust my further combating it will neither be deem«d impertinent nor invidious. The errors of a great mind are, of all others, the most material... | |
 | Chess - 1842 - 426 pages
...simplicity and extreme perfection of the game, as it is commonly played in Europe and Asia, convince me that it was invented by one effort of some great...phrase of Italian critics, by the first intention ; yet of this simple game, so exquisitely contrived and so certainly invented in India, I cannot find... | |
 | Chess - 1854 - 474 pages
...simplicity and extreme perfection of the game, as it is commonly played in Europe and Asia, convince me that it was invented by one effort of some great...but formed, to use the phrase of Italian critics, Ъу the first intention." In a paper more recently written on the same subject, in the "Asiatic Researches,"... | |
 | Antonius van der Linde - 1874 - 238 pages
...simplicity and extreme perfection of the game, as it is commonly played in Europe and Asia, convinco me that it was invented by one effort of some great genius; not completed by gradual improvements (unhistorisch!), but formed, to use the phrase of Italian critics, by the first intention; yet of this... | |
 | British - 1875 - 528 pages
...simplicity and extreme perfection of the game, as it is commonly played in Europe and Asia, convince me that it was invented by one effort of some great...phrase of Italian critics, by the first •intention ; yet of this simple game, so exquisitely contrived, and so certainly invented in India, I cannot find... | |
 | James George Scott - Burma - 1882 - 380 pages
...point, and quotes from the Bhawishya Puran. This seems all the more mysterious when he proceeds : " The beautiful simplicity and extreme perfection of...improvements, but formed, to use the phrase of Italian writers, by the first intention." But the European game is as different from the old Hindoo as the... | |
 | Aungervyle society - 1884 - 474 pages
...simplicity and extreme perfection of the game, as it is commonly played in Europe and Asia, convince me that it was invented by one effort of some great genius, net completed by gradual improvements, but formed, to use the phrase of Italian critics, by the first... | |
 | Michael J. Franklin - History - 2000 - 544 pages
...simplicity and extreme perfection of the game, as it is commonly played in Europe and Asia, Convince me that it was invented by one effort of some great...phrase of Italian critics, by the first intention ; yet of this simple game, so exquisitely contrived, and so certainly invented in India, I cannot find... | |
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The beautiful simplicity and extreme perfection of the game, as it is commonly played in Europe and Asia, convince me that it was invented by one effort of some great genius ; not completed by gradual improvements, but formed, to use the phrase of Italian... 