| James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pagina’s
...their courses, to obviate consequences, and ascertain contingencies, your Lordship will think nothing as a younger son of the ancient family of Congreve, in Staffordshire, of which t As one of the little occasional advantages which he did not disdain to take by his pen, as a man whose... | |
| William Timothy Call - 1905 - 178 pagina’s
...their causes, to obviate consequences, and ascertain contingencies, your Lordship will think nothing a trifle by which the mind is inured to caution, foresight, and circumspection." But in these days, when special training on specific subjects is most desired, the value of the game... | |
| John James Raven - 1907 - 414 pagina’s
...their causes, to obviate consequences, and ascertain contingencies, your lordship will think nothing a trifle by which the mind is inured to caution, foresight, and circumspection." What is true of draughts, chess, and a multitude of other games is true of change-ringing, which unites... | |
| Robert William Chapman - 1920 - 166 pagina’s
...their courses, to obviate consequences, and ascertain contingencies, your Lordship will think nothing a trifle by which the mind is inured to caution, foresight, and circumspection. It is impossible not to smile ; and the reader of the ' Journey will smile very often. But if he understands... | |
| Patricia Meyer Spacks - 1995 - 316 pagina’s
...their Causes, to obviate Consequences, and ascertain Contingencies, your Lordship will think nothing a Trifle by which the Mind is inured to Caution, Foresight, and Circumspection. (Hazen 150) Even a game of checkers, rightly understood, supplies enlightenment. One might consider... | |
| 1928 - 764 pagina’s
...their Causes, to obviate Consequences, and ascertain Contingencies, Your Lordship will think nothing a Trifle by which the Mind is inured to Caution, Foresight...Degree of Skill, is exerted in great and little Things, and Your Lordship may sometimes exercise, at a harmless Game, those Abilities, which have been so happily... | |
| 1865 - 786 pagina’s
...importance of small things, Professor Faraday quotes the following from Dr. Johnson : — " Nothing is to be considered as a trifle by which the mind...to caution, foresight, and circumspection. The same skillj and often the same degree of skill, is • exerted in great and little things." How, then, is... | |
| 1818 - 568 pagina’s
...ascertain contingencies, your lordship will think nothing a trifle by which the mind is inured to cautious foresight and circumspection^ The same skill, and...same degree of skill, is exerted in great and little tilings, and your lordship may sometimes exercise on a harmless game, those abilities which have been... | |
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