 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 588 pages
...to the victor. The MORALS of CHESS 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,... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 628 pages
...qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it. For life is a kind of chess, in which we have often...gain and competitors or adversaries to contend with." Chess, he said, taught foresight, circumspection, caution, and the importance of not being discouraged.... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 607 pages
...his Philadelphia Junto. "The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement," he began. "Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course...human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it. For life is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain and competitors or adversaries to... | |
 | Bruce Pandolfini - Games & Activities - 2008 - 404 pages
...Student (reading): "The game of chess is not merely idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it." Cool. Did Franklin really write this? Teacher: He certainly did. In any case,... | |
 | Hilaire Dubourcq - Cooking - 2004 - 208 pages
...CHESS By Benjamin Franklin (June 1779) 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 a variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it.... | |
 | Gordon S. Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 330 pages
...the way he manipulated chessmen on a board. "Life," he wrote sometime during his mission in France, "is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain, & competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 446 pages
...buman Life, are to he acquired or strengthened hy it, so as to hecome hahits, ready on all oecasions. For Life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often poims to gain, and Competitors or Adversaries to comend with; and in which there is a vast varictv... | |
 | Walter Stahr - History - 2005 - 520 pages
...essay on chess, in which he argued that the game was not merely "an idle amusement" but a way to learn "valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life." In one famous story about Franklin, he played a long chess game in the bathroom of his friend Madame... | |
 | Eric Wertheimer - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 220 pages
...of strategic design. He writes that 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 and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions; for life is a kind of chess,... | |
 | Chess - 1820 - 90 pages
...THE MORALS OF CHESS. BY DR. FRANKLIN. 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,... | |
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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. 
