 | Warren Richardson - Fantasy fiction - 1892 - 354 pages
...some of it to pass in trifles."— Locke. " The game of chess is 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,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 460 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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 464 pages
...by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For life is a kind of chess, in which we have points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to...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,... | |
 | James Mason - 1900 - 204 pages
...need never be played for money. Then he continues : — " 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 of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - History - 1906 - 468 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 of human Life, are to be acquir'd or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For Life is a kind... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1906 - 486 pages
...Several very valuable qualities of the Mind, useful in the course of human Life, are to be acquir'd or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For I Life is a kind of Chess, in which we often have Points to gain, & Competitors or Adversaries to contend... | |
 | Willard Fiske - Chess - 1912 - 484 pages
...everyone who reads it. "The game of chess," he asserts, "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 [225] is a kind of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards - American literature - 1920 - 424 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 of human Life, are to be acquir'd or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For Life is a kind... | |
 | Willard Fiske - 1922 - 446 pages
...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." He then proceeds to show that by playing at Chess we may learn "foresight, circumspection, caution,... | |
 | Willard Fiske - 1922 - 444 pages
...every one who reads it. "The game of Chess," he asserts, "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."... | |
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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. 
