The Canterbury Puzzles: And Other Curious ProblemsE.P. Dutton and Company, 1908 - 194 |
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Strona xiii
... play or education , to keep level with his fellows , and in later life it turns men into great discoverers , inventors , orators , heroes , artists and ( if they have more material aims ) perhaps millionaires . In starting on a tour ...
... play or education , to keep level with his fellows , and in later life it turns men into great discoverers , inventors , orators , heroes , artists and ( if they have more material aims ) perhaps millionaires . In starting on a tour ...
Strona xvi
... play of fancy . Readers will remember the riddle of the Sphinx , the monster of Boeotia who propounded enigmas to the inhabitants and devoured them if they failed to solve them . It was said that the Sphinx would destroy herself if one ...
... play of fancy . Readers will remember the riddle of the Sphinx , the monster of Boeotia who propounded enigmas to the inhabitants and devoured them if they failed to solve them . It was said that the Sphinx would destroy herself if one ...
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... play at certain games , albeit they be not lawful for them . These games , such as cards and the game of chess , do they cunningly hide from the abbot's eye by putting them away in holes that they have cut out of the very hearts of. 11 ...
... play at certain games , albeit they be not lawful for them . These games , such as cards and the game of chess , do they cunningly hide from the abbot's eye by putting them away in holes that they have cut out of the very hearts of. 11 ...
Strona 10
... play among ourselves when the good abbess doth hap to be away . ' 99 The Nun then produced the eighteen cards that are shown in the illustration . She explained that the puzzle was so to arrange the cards in a pack , that by placing the ...
... play among ourselves when the good abbess doth hap to be away . ' 99 The Nun then produced the eighteen cards that are shown in the illustration . She explained that the puzzle was so to arrange the cards in a pack , that by placing the ...
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... played upon them a merry jest . In the midst of their deep thinking and hot dispute what should the cunning knave do but stealthily take away both the pie and the pasty . Then , when hunger made them desire to go on with the repast ...
... played upon them a merry jest . In the midst of their deep thinking and hot dispute what should the cunning knave do but stealthily take away both the pie and the pasty . Then , when hunger made them desire to go on with the repast ...
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Strona xvi - You gave the wrong answer,' said the sphinx. 'But that was what made everything possible,' said Oedipus. 'No.' she said. 'When I asked, what walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening, you answered Man. You didn't say anything about Woman.' 'When you say Man,' said Oedipus, 'you include women too. Everyone knows that.
Strona xiv - Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare, " he who knows not how to dissemble, knows not how to reign.
Strona xxi - Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son.
Strona 189 - Sat up last night till 4 am, over a tempting problem, sent me from New York, " to find 3 equal rationalsided rt.-angled A'S." I found two, whose sides are 20, 21, 29; 12, 35, 37 ; but could not find three.
Strona 11 - THE COOK A cook they had with them, just for the nonce, To boil the chickens with the marrow-bones, And flavour tartly and with galingale, Well could he tell a draught of London ale, And he could roast and seethe and broil and fry, And make a good thick soup, and bake a pie, But very ill it was, it seemed to me, That on his shin a deadly sore had he; For sweet blanc-mange, he made it with the best, THE SAILOR There was a sailor, living far out west...
Strona 90 - ... from the ceiling, as at A, and a fly is on the opposite wall, 1 foot from the floor in the centre, as shown at B. What is the shortest distance that the spider must crawl in order to reach the fly, which remains stationary ? Of course the spider never drops or uses its web, but crawls fairly.
Strona 19 - All full of freshe flowers white and red. Singing he was or fluting all the day : He was as fresh as is the month of have, Short was his gown, with sleeves long and wide; Well could he sit on horse, and faire' He could6 songes well make, and indite, Joust, and eke dance, and well pourtray and write.
Strona 27 - That lookest as thou wouldest find a hare? For ever on the ground I see thee stare.
Strona xvii - CEdipus. who said that man walked on his hands and feet when young, or in the morning of life ; at the noon of life he walked erect : and in the evening of bis days be supported himself upon a Sphinx-moth Spider -t irk.
Strona xix - The maxim that there is always a right way and a wrong way of doing anything applies in a very marked degree to the solving of puzzles.