 | Wellington Williams - 1848 - 438 Seiten
...game of chess," says Franklin, " is not merely an idle amusement ; several very valuable qualities of mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits readv on ail occasions." Tlii. remark, made by our great... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1848 - 328 Seiten
...game of chess," says Franklin, " is not merely an idle amusement ; several very valuable qualities of mind, useful in the course of human life, Are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions." This remark, made by oar great... | |
 | 1849 - 442 Seiten
...source of relaxation ; and he wrote an essay upon the " Morals of Chess," in which he says, " The game 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." We are gratified to learn that... | |
 | Mrs. Warren (Eliza) - 1751 - 206 Seiten
...learn its mysteries. Dr. Franklin observes, " that Chess is not merely an idle amusement," but that ''several very valuable qualities of the mind, 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... | |
 | 1852 - 644 Seiten
...Morals of Chess," from which it may not be irrelevant in an American book, to quote a few passages : " 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,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 308 Seiten
...never played for money. Those, therefore, who have leisure for such diversions, cannot find one that U more innocent ; and the following piece, written with...strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasicns. For life is a kind of chess, in which we have points to gain, and competitors or adversaries... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 Seiten
...some little improprieties in the practice of it, shows at the same time that it may, in its ellects on the mind, be not merely innocent, but advantageous,...the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to 1» acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For life is a kind... | |
 | 1863 - 404 Seiten
...moral principles, we mean — which makes it not only an interesting pastime, but calls into action several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life. Benjamin Franklin points out these valuable lessons in some such words as these :— " First, foresight,... | |
 | Warren Richardson - 1892 - 354 Seiten
...some of it to pass in trifles."— Locke. " The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement; several valuable qualities of the mind, 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,... | |
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... 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,... 
