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... equal to our sixpence , the above sum if melted into a solid mass would form a silver cube of nearly fifteen miles for its basis ) , and supposing the relative value of gold and silver , to have been , then and there , the same as with ...
... equal to our sixpence , the above sum if melted into a solid mass would form a silver cube of nearly fifteen miles for its basis ) , and supposing the relative value of gold and silver , to have been , then and there , the same as with ...
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... equal parts , then you shall choose for yourself that half which may best please you . ' To this fair and generous proposal the younger brother would by no means listen ; for he attributed the elder's forbearance and moderation solely ...
... equal parts , then you shall choose for yourself that half which may best please you . ' To this fair and generous proposal the younger brother would by no means listen ; for he attributed the elder's forbearance and moderation solely ...
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... equal to our sixpence ; the dang equal to our penny ; and the tasu , equal in value to our farthing . The King , they say , is beyond all value , on account of his rank , but in reality from the nature of the game . The value of the ...
... equal to our sixpence ; the dang equal to our penny ; and the tasu , equal in value to our farthing . The King , they say , is beyond all value , on account of his rank , but in reality from the nature of the game . The value of the ...
Page 102
... equal to two Rooks and one Pawn , as every good Chess - player knows ; and it is only when the board has become somewhat cleared of the men that the two Rooks com- bined approximate or equal the Queen . I have set down the latter then ...
... equal to two Rooks and one Pawn , as every good Chess - player knows ; and it is only when the board has become somewhat cleared of the men that the two Rooks com- bined approximate or equal the Queen . I have set down the latter then ...
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... equal , on an average , to a Pawn ; that is , a player of the first - class could give to the very best of the second class a Rook's Pawn , and to the weakest of the same class the King's Pawn . The third gave the odds of the Knight in ...
... equal , on an average , to a Pawn ; that is , a player of the first - class could give to the very best of the second class a Rook's Pawn , and to the weakest of the same class the King's Pawn . The third gave the odds of the Knight in ...
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Page 178 - At the nuptials of the same prince, a thousand pearls of the largest size were showered on the head of the bride, and a lottery of lands and houses displayed the capricious bounty of fortune.
Page 297 - 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 critics, by the first •intention...
Page 277 - Brahmins were neither mistaken touching the board, which has a river in the middle to divide the contending parties, nor in the powers of the king, who is entrenched in a fort, and moves only in that space in every direction ; but, what I did not...
Page 165 - O true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images, and divining arrows, are an abomination of the work of Satan; therefore avoid them, that ye may prosper. Satan seeketh to sow dissension and hatred among you, by means of wine and lots, and to divert you from remembering God, and from prayer; will ye not therefore abstain from them?
Page 235 - On the festival of Christmas, the last year of the eighth century, Charlemagne appeared in the church of St. Peter; and, to gratify the vanity of Rome, he had exchanged the simple dress of his country for the habit of a patrician. 98 After the celebration of the holy mysteries, Leo suddenly placed a precious crown on his head...
Page lix - Hindus are not only on a par with the least civilized nations of the Old and New World, but they are plunged almost without exception in the lowest depths of immorality and crime. Considered merely in a literary capacity, the description of the Hindus in the History of British India, is open to censure for its...
Page 166 - ... tables, &c. And they are reckoned so ill in themselves, that the testimony of him who plays at them is, by the more rigid, judged to be of no validity in a court of justice. Chess is almost the only game which the Mohammedan doctors allow to be lawful (though it has been a doubt with some...
Page 253 - The King does not Castle, but is allowed the move of a Knight once in the game; not, however, to take any piece, nor can he exercise this privilege after having been once checked.
Page 182 - Arabian learning shone with a brighter lustre, and continued to flourish to a later period, than in the schools of the East. Cordova, Seville, and Granada, rivalled each other in the magnificence of their academies, colleges, and libraries.
Page lvi - ... merit of not being in this respect inferior to other nations. Their games are very numerous, and for the most part very ingenious ; they are divided into the sedentary and gymnastic. It is a curious fact, and worthy of notice, that among the first is the game of chess, which they call comican, and which has been known to them from time immemorial. The game of quechu, which they esteem highly, has a great affinity to that of backgammon, but instead of dice they make use of triangular pieces of...