 ... 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 effects of prudence,...  The accomplished chess-player [by R. Roy]. - Seite 8von Reuben Roy - 1849Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Willard Fiske - 1912 - 484 Seiten
...well-conceived maxims of advice are apparent to everyone who reads it. "The game of chess," he asserts, "is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable...useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions; for life [225] is a kind of... | |
 | Willard Fiske - 1922 - 446 Seiten
...well-conceived maxims of advice are apparent to every one who reads it. "The game of Chess," he asserts, "is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable...useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions; for life is a kind of Chess."... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - 2003 - 607 Seiten
...in 1732 for his Philadelphia Junto. "The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement," he began. "Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful...human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it. For life is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain and competitors or adversaries to... | |
 | Bruce Pandolfini - 2008 - 404 Seiten
...Student (reading): "The game of chess is not merely idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it." Cool. Did Franklin really write this? Teacher: He certainly did. In any case,... | |
 | Jim Lehrer - 2005 - 232 Seiten
...more than chess." R was most familiar with that essay. He particularly remembered the opening words: "The Game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement;...very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the court of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it." The smelly man said, "I have always... | |
 | Walter Stahr - 2005 - 520 Seiten
...essay on chess, in which he argued that the game was not merely "an idle amusement" but a way to learn "valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life." In one famous story about Franklin, he played a long chess game in the bathroom of his friend Madame... | |
 | Eric Wertheimer - 2006 - 220 Seiten
...his otherwise realistic battle with misfortune and the bad turns of strategic design. He writes that the game of chess is not merely an idle amusement;...useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions; for life is a kind of chess,... | |
 | 1881 - 644 Seiten
...give an extract from Benjamin Franklin's essay on " The Morals of Chess," in which he says : — " The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, nsefol in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits,... | |
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