 The queen (he spoke of Irene) considered you as a rook and herself as a pawn. That pusillanimous female submitted to pay a tribute, the double of which she ought to have exacted from the Barbarians. Restore therefore the fruits of your injustice, or abide...  Amusements in Chess - Side 24av Charles Tomlinson - 1845 - 352 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 406 sider
...Irene) considered you as a " rook and herself as a pawn. That pusillani" mous female submitted to pay a tribute, the " double of which she ought to have exacted from " the Barbarians. Restore therefore the fruits of " your injustice, or abide the determination of "... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 sider
...considered you as a rook, and herself CHAP " as a pawn. That pusillanimous female submitted xL " to pay a tribute, the double of which she ought to " have exacted from the Barbarians. Restore, there" fore, the fruits of your injustice, or abide the de" termination of... | |
 | Andrew Crichton - 1833 - 476 sider
...of chess), " considered you as a rook, and herself a pawn. That pusillanimous woman submitted to pay a tribute, the double of which she ought to have exacted from the barbarians. Restore, therefore, the fruits of your injustice, or abide the determination of the... | |
 | 1841 - 282 sider
...but as this supposition necessarily excludes all knowledge of the game previous to the year 1 1 00, it is liable to very formidable objections. An eastern...the courts of Constantinople and France renders it extremely probable that the latter kingdom was one of the first, if not the very first, in Western... | |
 | 1841 - 272 sider
...reign, and made a pointed allusion to the game of chess in an epistle to the Caliph Haroun al Kaschid. " The queen," said he, speaking of Irene, the mother...the courts of Constantinople and France renders it extremely probable that the latter kingdom was one of the first, if not the very first, in Western... | |
 | 1841 - 536 sider
...mother of Constantine, " to whom I have succeeded, considered you as a rook, and herself as a paten. That pusillanimous female submitted therefore to pay to thee a tribute, the double of wliich she ought to have exacted from thyself." The game being thus familiar at Constantinople at that... | |
 | 1841 - 448 sider
...considered you as a Rook, and herself as a Pawn. That pusillanimous female submitted, therefore, to pay the tribute, the double of which she ought to have exacted from thyself." What were the original terms employed in speaking of the Rook and Pawn, we have no means of knowing,... | |
 | P A. Beddome - 1844 - 280 sider
...Irene) considered you as a rook, and herself as a pawn. That pusillanimous female submitted to pay a tribute, the double of which she ought to have exacted from the barbarian. Restore, therefore, the fruits of your injustice, or abide the determination of the... | |
 | John Frost - 1846 - 374 sider
...Irene,) "considered you as a rook, and herself as a pawn. That pusillanimous female submitted to pay a tribute, the double of which she ought to have exacted from the barbarians. Restore, therefore, the fruits of your injustice, or abide the determination of the... | |
 | 1847 - 762 sider
...obliterate the badge of servitude," said his ambassador to Haroun Al Raschid ; " Irene submitted to pay a tribute, the double of which she ought to have exacted from the barbarians ; restore, therefore, the fruits of your injustice, or abide the determination of the... | |
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