 | Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 564 Seiten
...useful in the course of human Life, are to be acquir'd or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For Life is a kind of Chess, in which we often have Points to gain, & Competitors or Adversaries to contend with; and in which there is a vast... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards - 1920 - 424 Seiten
...habits, ready on all occasions. For Life is a kind of Chess, in which we often have Points to gain, & Competitors or Adversaries to contend with; and in...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 - 2003 - 588 Seiten
...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,...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: 1. Foresight, which... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - 2004 - 628 Seiten
...qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it. For life is a kind of chess, in which we have often...gain and competitors or adversaries to contend with." Chess, he said, taught foresight, circumspection, caution, and the importance of not being discouraged.... | |
 | Hilaire Dubourcq - 2004 - 208 Seiten
...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,...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.... | |
 | Gordon S. Wood - 2004 - 330 Seiten
...the way he manipulated chessmen on a board. "Life," he wrote sometime during his mission in France, "is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain, & competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2004 - 446 Seiten
...buman Life, are to he acquired or strengthened hy it, so as to hecome hahits, ready on all oecasions. For Life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often poims to gain, and Competitors or Adversaries to comend with; and in which there is a vast varictv... | |
 | Eric Wertheimer - 2006 - 220 Seiten
...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,...is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are ... the effect of prudence or the want of it. By analogy, life is not merely a machine, nor a theological... | |
 | 1820 - 90 Seiten
...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,...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... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 522 Seiten
...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,...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,... | |
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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 or the want of it. 
