 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1844 - 600 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...a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gam, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - Chess - 1845 - 376 pages
...ANTIQUITIES, AND CURIOSITIES OF THE GAME OF CHESS. The game of Chess la 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,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 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 vast variety... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 pages
...vanquished as well as the victor. The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement Several very valuahle qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to he acquired or strengthened hy it, so as to hecome hahits ready on all occasions. For life is a kind... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesman - 1848 - 312 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...ready on all occasions. For life is a kind of chess, m which we have points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in w'hich there... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesman - 1848 - 292 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...to become habits, ready on all occasions. For life it a kind of chess, in which we have points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1848 - 328 pages
...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... | |
 | Wellington Williams - Canada - 1848 - 438 pages
...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... | |
 | Reuben Roy - 1849 - 126 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 vast variety... | |
 | John Stanley (printer.) - Statesmen - 1849 - 178 pages
...the victor. " The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be...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 vast 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. 
