| Thomas Pruen - 1804 - 348 ページ
...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,... | |
| Thomas Pruen (of Cheltenham.) - 1804 - 338 ページ
...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,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1804 - 78 ページ
...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 some degree, the effects of prudence or the want... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 590 ページ
...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...human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, SQ as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For life is a kind of chess, in which we have often... | |
| 1806 - 382 ページ
...MORALS OF CHESS. В Г OR. FRANKLIN. THE Game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement ; several verv 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,... | |
| Edmond Hoyle - 1808 - 120 ページ
...OF CHESS, />/?. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. J HE 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,... | |
| Edmond Hoyle - 1808 - 122 ページ
...CHESS. BY DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. -I HE 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 hare often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1810 - 292 ページ
...course of human hf, , uie to be acquired or ttri ngtlitncd by ii , so as to become habits, ' ' udy on all occasions. For life is a kind of chess, in which we have olu n poin-s to i,;iin- and compeutors ot a ivi- rsaries lo convtiiti, uadiu wiacli U>i-rciAd \«ai... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1811 - 190 ページ
...to the Tanquished 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...are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to be« come habit.-., ready on all occa ions. For life is a kiud of chess, in which we have often points... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1811 - 196 ページ
...victor. The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several valuable qualities of the. mjnd, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired...strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occa ions. For life is a kind of qhess, ii> which we have often points to gain, and competitors or... | |
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