 | Benjamin Franklin, Alfred Howard - 1834 - 206 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 con. tend with, and in which there is a vast variety... | |
 | 1881 - 644 pages
...game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, nsefol in the course of human life, are to be acquired or...occasions. For life is a kind of Chess, in which we bave a point to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a variety... | |
 | 1793 - 648 pages
...qualities of the mind, ufeful in the courfe of human life, are to be acquired and ftrengthened by it, fo as to become habits ready on all occasions : for life is a kind of chefs in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adverfaries to contend with, and in... | |
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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. 
