An Inquiry Into the Ancient Greek Game, Supposed to Have Been Invented by Palamedes, Antecedent to the Siege of Troy: With Reasons for Believing the Same to Have Been Known from Remote Antiquity in China, and Progressively Improved Into the Chinese, Indian, Persian, and European Chess ; Also, Two Dissertations, I. On the Athenian Skirophoria, II. On the Mystical Meaning of the Bough and Umbrella, in the Skiran RitesT. Becket, 1801 - 169 ページ |
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... former of these being a sheepfold covered with sail - cloth ; or , probably , of skins of beasts . Although it has not been judged proper to insert a copy of the engraving in this Tract , yet , as it presents a very curious illustration ...
... former of these being a sheepfold covered with sail - cloth ; or , probably , of skins of beasts . Although it has not been judged proper to insert a copy of the engraving in this Tract , yet , as it presents a very curious illustration ...
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... former should be examined , and their particularities clearly understood in the first instance , before we take a view of the later game . The Пeria of the Greeks , from its simplicity , must be allowed to bear the marks of very early ...
... former should be examined , and their particularities clearly understood in the first instance , before we take a view of the later game . The Пeria of the Greeks , from its simplicity , must be allowed to bear the marks of very early ...
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... former , I have reason to conclude that the pebble could retreat at any period of the game ; and if this should hold good in the Ludus Latrunculorum , it will also become a general rule in the Πετλεία . The former of these passages I ...
... former , I have reason to conclude that the pebble could retreat at any period of the game ; and if this should hold good in the Ludus Latrunculorum , it will also become a general rule in the Πετλεία . The former of these passages I ...
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... former , by comparing the testimonies of classic writers , who have treated of it , he has endeavoured to explain it by the modern game . Hence we meet with several incon- sistencies , such as - taking obliquely ; -leaping over heads ...
... former , by comparing the testimonies of classic writers , who have treated of it , he has endeavoured to explain it by the modern game . Hence we meet with several incon- sistencies , such as - taking obliquely ; -leaping over heads ...
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... former owed its origin to the Dice . Now , in the opinion of Dr. HYDE , the Kubo or Dice were invented between the time of Homer and Aristophanes . This leaves a large interval for con- jecture ; but , perhaps , it might not be ...
... former owed its origin to the Dice . Now , in the opinion of Dr. HYDE , the Kubo or Dice were invented between the time of Homer and Aristophanes . This leaves a large interval for con- jecture ; but , perhaps , it might not be ...
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afterwards alluded allusion Alveus amongst antient game Antiquities appears Aristophanes Athenæus Athenian Athens authority Bacchus Bough Brahmins Buddha Cashmir celebrated Celts central mark ceremonies Chinese Chess circumvention Clementinum conceive conjecture considered Corsini deity dice Dissertation elephant elevated Pebbles emblem expressed feast festival former game of Chess Greece Greek game Greeks Hindus Hyde observes Hyperborean implies Indian game Inferis ingenious invention inviolable Julius Pollux King Ludus Latrunculorum mandra meaning Meursius Minerva Skiras Mistletoe mound move nations Nerd northern object origin Ovid Palamedes pastoral Paullini Pausanias Pelasgic perhaps Persians Phalerus Phirdausi pieces played Plutarch Prytanëum reference religious remarks rendered represented Roman game Sacred mark Saumaise Scholiast Scythian shades sheep-fold shew shewn signified Silvanus Skiran rites Skirophoria solstice supposed temple of Minerva termed Theseus Umbrella Vishnu whilst word YULE δὲ ἐν ἐπὶ καὶ Πετεία Πλινθίον τῇ τὴν τὸ τὸν τῶν