 | Andrew Sloan Draper - Self-culture - 1907 - 436 pages
...it is therefore hest that these rules he ohserved, as the game therehy hecomes so much the more like human life, and particularly of war, in which, if you have incautiously put yourself into a had or dangerous position, you cannot ohtain your enemy's leave to withdraw your troops, and place... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards - American literature - 1920 - 424 pages
...strictly the laws of the Game; such as, // you touch a Piece, you must move it somewhere; if you set it down, you must let it stand. And it is therefore...best that these rules should be observed, as the Game becomes thereby more the image of human Life, and particularly of War; in which, if you have incautiously... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 446 pages
...therefore hest that these rules should he ohserved, as the Game hecomes therehy more the image of buman Life, and particularly of War; in which, if you have incautiously put vourselt imo a had and dangerous position, you cannot ohtain your Enemv 's I .eave to w ithdraw your... | |
 | Jim Lehrer - Fiction - 2005 - 224 pages
...in the library with Ben's 1,200-word essay on chess before him. The apt phrases leaped out at him. If you have incautiously put yourself into a bad and dangerous position . . . you must abide by all consequences of your rashness. One so frequently, after contemplation, discovers... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1837 - 632 pages
...the laws of the game, such as, ' If you touch a piece you must move it somewhere ; if you set it duwn you must let it stand,' and it is therefore best that...more the image of human life, and particularly of war ; and which, if you have incautiously put yourself into a bad and dangerous position, you cannot obtain... | |
 | 1793 - 648 pages
...it ftand. Therefore, it would be the better way to obferve thefe rules, as the game becomes thereby more the image of human life, and particularly of war ; in which, if you have incautioufly put yourfelf into a bad and dangerous pofition, you cannot obtain your enemies leave to... | |
 | Chess - 1820 - 90 pages
...strictly the laws of the game, such as, " If you touch a piece, you must move it somewhere ; if you set it down, you must let it stand :" and it is therefore best that these rulesshould be observed, as the game thereby becomes more the image of human life, and particularly... | |
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... and It is therefore best that these rules should be observed; as the game... 
