 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 Seiten
...as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it ; and thence it is never played for money. Life is a kind of chess, in which we have points to...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 Seiten
...as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it, and thence it is never played for money. Life is a kind of chess, in which we have points to...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
...not merely innocent, but advantageous to the vanquished as well as the victor. The game of chess ia not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable...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... | |
 | 1888 - 536 Seiten
...pardon, with something handsome besides." Benjamin Franklin compared the game of chess to human life, "in which we have points to gain, and competitors...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
...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...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... | |
 | James Mason - 1900 - 204 Seiten
...inducement to engage in it — whence it need never be played for money. Then he continues : — " Life is a kind of chess, in which we have points to...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... | |
 | 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...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,... | |
 | 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...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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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, in which we have... 
