| Thomas Pruen - 1804 - 348 Seiten
...Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready...good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it. By playing at Chess, then, we learn, " I. 'Foresight, which... | |
| Thomas Pruen (of Cheltenham.) - 1804 - 338 Seiten
...Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready...good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it. By playing at Chess, then, we learn, " I. Foresight, which looks... | |
| Edmond Hoyle - 1808 - 120 Seiten
...several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready...good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it. By playing at chess, then, we may learn, I. Foresight, which... | |
| Edmond Hoyle - 1808 - 122 Seiten
...by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions; for life is a kind of chess, in which we hare often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries...good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it. By playing at chess, then, we may learn, I. Foresight, which... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1811 - 190 Seiten
...is a kiud of chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to cootend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it. By playing at chess, then, we may learn, I. Foresight, which... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1811 - 196 Seiten
...ii> which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in whirh there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it. By playing at chess, then, we may learn, I. Foresight^ which... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1815 - 336 Seiten
...qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by iti so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For...good and ill events, that are in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it. By playing at chess, then, we may learn, I. Foresight, which... | |
| William Stopford Kenny - 1818 - 260 Seiten
...a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to con~ tend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and evil events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence, or the want of it. By playing at chess,... | |
| 1821 - 356 Seiten
...Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready...good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prndence or the want of it. By playing at chess, then, we may learn, I. Foresight, which... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 Seiten
...useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become hahits, ready on all occasions. For life is a kind of chess,...good and ill events, that are, in some degree the effects of prudence, or the want of it. By playing at chess, then, we may learn, I. Foresight, which... | |
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