The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement. 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 on all occasions. For life is a kind of Chess,... Social chess, a collection of games - Seite 23von James Mason - 1900Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1870 - 428 Seiten
...the other, but this plat, necessitates an immense supply of leaves. In either case the wreathinsr 304 Life is a Kind of Chess, in which we have Points to gain. looks very well suspended in festoons ; the under side, though of lighter colour, is equally neat and... | |
| 1875 - 562 Seiten
...resemblance between our human life and the game of Chess : — " Life is a kind of Chess, in which wo have points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a variety of good and ill events that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it."... | |
| H I. C - 1885 - 94 Seiten
...life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For life is a kind of chess, in which we have points to...and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and iu which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence... | |
| John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - 1888 - 594 Seiten
...so as to become habits ready on all occasions : for life is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events that are, in some degree, the effect of prudence, or of the want... | |
| Warren Richardson - 1892 - 354 Seiten
...so as to become habits ready on all occasions; for life is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and evil events that are, in some degree, the effect of prudence or the want of... | |
| David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 464 Seiten
...life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For life is a kind of chess, in which we have points to...adversaries to contend 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... | |
| 1900 - 514 Seiten
...so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For life is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend 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... | |
| Chauncey C. Starkweather - 1900 - 450 Seiten
...so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For life is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend 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... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1904 - 566 Seiten
...so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For life is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend 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... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 396 Seiten
...so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For life is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend 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... | |
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