 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.  The Boston News-letter: And City Record - Page 1171826Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 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...degree, the effects of prudence, or the want of it. By playing at chess, then, we learn, I. Foresight, which looks a little into futurity, considers the... | |
 | 1855 - 506 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 contend with, and in which there wa vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 pages
...to 1» 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 often points to...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,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 374 pages
...Thou mak'st the gloomy face of nature gay, Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day. PLXVI. good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it. By playing at chess then, we learn, — 1st. Foresight, which looks a little into futurity, considers... | |
 | 1856 - 372 pages
...engaging in it ; and thence it is never played for money. 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... | |
 | 1862 - 314 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...degree the effects of prudence, or the want of it." Willie and Ida were intent upon their moves, and could have felt no greater interest though the discovery... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...engaging in it ; and thence it is never played for money. 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 and the want... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 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...degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it. By playing atcnesf then, we learn, I. Foresight. which looks a little into futurity, considers the... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...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 of it. By playing at chess then we learn, — ist. Foresight, which looks a little into futurity, considers... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 pages
...engaging in it, and thence it is never played for money. 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... | |
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