The Canterbury Puzzles: And Other Curious ProblemsE.P. Dutton and Company, 1908 - 194 pàgines |
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Pàgina xvii
... cross the road ? " to which most people give the answer , " To get to the other side , " though the correct reply is , " To worry the chauffeur . " It has degenerated into the conundrum , which is usually based on a mere pun . For ...
... cross the road ? " to which most people give the answer , " To get to the other side , " though the correct reply is , " To worry the chauffeur . " It has degenerated into the conundrum , which is usually based on a mere pun . For ...
Pàgina 18
... cross may be so cunningly cut into four pieces that they will join and make a perfect square . Though on my faith I know not the manner of doing it . " It is recorded that " the pilgrims did find no answer to the riddle , and the Clerk ...
... cross may be so cunningly cut into four pieces that they will join and make a perfect square . Though on my faith I know not the manner of doing it . " It is recorded that " the pilgrims did find no answer to the riddle , and the Clerk ...
Pàgina 24
... cross the river in any boat , neither by swimming nor wading , nor do I go underground like unto the mole , nor fly in the air as doth the eagle ; but only pass over by the bridges . " There is a way in which the Parson might have made ...
... cross the river in any boat , neither by swimming nor wading , nor do I go underground like unto the mole , nor fly in the air as doth the eagle ; but only pass over by the bridges . " There is a way in which the Parson might have made ...
Pàgina 37
... Cross . When Sir Hugh's kinsman , Sir John de Collingham , came back from the Holy Land , he brought with him a flag bearing the sign of a crescent , as shown in the illustration . It was noticed that De Fortibus spent much time in ...
... Cross . When Sir Hugh's kinsman , Sir John de Collingham , came back from the Holy Land , he brought with him a flag bearing the sign of a crescent , as shown in the illustration . It was noticed that De Fortibus spent much time in ...
Pàgina 38
... cross of our own banner . Herein is a sign that bodes good for our wars in the Holy Land . " Sir Hugh de Fortibus then explained that the crescent in one banner might be cut into pieces that would exactly form the perfect བ་ སྙ cross in ...
... cross of our own banner . Herein is a sign that bodes good for our wars in the Holy Land . " Sir Hugh de Fortibus then explained that the crescent in one banner might be cut into pieces that would exactly form the perfect བ་ སྙ cross in ...
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Pàgina 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.
Pàgina xiv - Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare, " he who knows not how to dissemble, knows not how to reign.
Pàgina xxi - Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 27 - That lookest as thou wouldest find a hare? For ever on the ground I see thee stare.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.