 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 Seiten
...amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to 1» acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits,...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,... | |
 | 1856 - 372 Seiten
...engaging in it ; and thence it is never played for money. Life is a kind of chess, in which we have points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a great variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 Seiten
...engaging in it ; and thence it is never played for money. Life is a kind of chess, in which we have points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a great variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence and the want... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 Seiten
...engaging in it, and thence it is never played for money. Life is a kind of chess, in which we have points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a great variety of good and ill events that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want... | |
 | 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
...INTRODUCTION TO CHESS ; WITH LAW8 OP THE GAME ; DIAGRAMS, ETC. " Life is a kind of Chess, in which! we 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.... | |
 | John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - 1888 - 594 Seiten
...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...good and ill events that are, in some degree, the effect of prudence, or of the want of it. By playing at chess, then, we may learn — ist. Foresight,... | |
 | 1888 - 536 Seiten
...something handsome besides." Benjamin Franklin compared the game of chess to human life, "in which we have points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a great variety of good and ill events that are. in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want... | |
 | Warren Richardson - 1892 - 354 Seiten
...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...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 it." — franklin, " The... | |
 | 1900 - 514 Seiten
...on the mind, be not merely innocent, but advantageous, to the vanquished as well as the victor. The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several...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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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,... 
