 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.  Amusements in Chess - Sivu 9tekijä(t) Charles Tomlinson - 1845 - 352 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2003 - 274 sivua
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 | Bruce Pandolfini - 2008 - 404 sivua
...Student (reading): "The game of chess is not merely idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it." Cool. Did Franklin really write this? Teacher: He certainly did. In any case, we probably won't ever... | |
 | Hilaire Dubourcq - 2004 - 208 sivua
...CHESS By Benjamin Franklin (June 1779) 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. For life is a kind of chess,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2004 - 446 sivua
...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... | |
 | Walter Stahr - 2005 - 520 sivua
...essay on chess, in which he argued that the game was not merely "an idle amusement" but a way to learn "valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life." In one famous story about Franklin, he played a long chess game in the bathroom of his friend Madame... | |
 | 1960 - 528 sivua
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 | 1960 - 536 sivua
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 | 1881 - 644 sivua
...Several very valuable 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...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... | |
 | 1820 - 90 sivua
...THE MORALS OF CHESS. BY DR. FRANKLIN. 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. For life is a kind of chess,... | |
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