 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 or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions.  The Day - Seite 3321832Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 468 Seiten
...habits, ready on all occasions. For Life is a kind of Chess, in which we often have Points to gain, & Competitors or Adversaries to contend with; and in which there is a vast variety of good and 5ll Events, that are in some degree the Effects of Prudence or the want of it. By playing at Chess,... | |
 | Willard Fiske - 1922 - 444 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - 2004 - 628 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | Hilaire Dubourcq - 2004 - 208 Seiten
...qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human Life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For...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 - 2004 - 330 Seiten
...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 - 2004 - 446 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Eric Wertheimer - 2006 - 220 Seiten
...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...is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are ... the effect of prudence or the want of it. By analogy, life is not merely a machine, nor a theological... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 522 Seiten
...qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For...with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and evil events, that are in some degree the effects of prudence or the want of it. By playing at chess,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Alfred Howard - 1834 - 206 Seiten
...qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened 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 con. tend with, and in which there is a vast variety... | |
 | 1881 - 644 Seiten
...qualities of the mind, nsefol in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all 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... | |
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