 | 1812 - 314 pages
...the vanquished as well as the victor. The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course...adversaries to contend with, and in which there is vast variety of good and ill events, which are, in somedegree, the effects of prudence or the want... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1815 - 336 pages
...to the vanquished as well as the victor. The game of chess is not merely'an idle amusement. Several valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course...human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by iti so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For life is a kind of chess, in which we have often... | |
 | William Stopford Kenny - Chess - 1818 - 260 pages
...learned Dr. Franklin. •'• , «••• The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement, several valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course...points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to con~ tend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and evil events, that are, in some degree,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1820 - 360 pages
...vanquished as well as Die victor. The game of chess is not merely an idle amustluent. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthencd by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For life is a kind of chess, iu... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...vanquished as well as the victor. The game of chess is not merely an idle amnseiiicul. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course...with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prndence or the want of it. By playing at chess,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 pages
...useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become hahits, ready on all occasions. For life is a kind of chess,...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. By playing at chess,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 pages
...the vanquished as well as the victor. The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course...be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become hahits, ready on all occasions. For life is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1823 - 310 pages
...to the vanquished as well as the victor. The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course...adversaries to contend with, and in which there is avast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree the effects of prudence or the want... | |
 | François Danican Philidor - Chess - 1826 - 270 pages
...vanquished as well as the victor. " The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities" of the mind, useful in the course...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. By playing at Chess,... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 440 pages
...the vanquished as well as the victor. The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement^ Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course...occasions. For 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... | |
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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. 
