 Yet it is a very plain and elementary truth, that the life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult...  Science - Page 172edited by - 1903Full view - About this book
 | Arminianism - 1876 - 1204 pages
...thing to sin, and that to sinners " our God is a consuming fire." Professor Huxley speaks thus : " It is a very plain and elementary truth, that the...woman of us being one of the two players in a game of hie or her own. The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules... | |
 | Alfred Elwes - 1872 - 306 pages
...son, or the State which allowed its members, to grow up without knowing a pawn from a knight 1 Now, it is a very plain and elementary truth that the life,...of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chess-board is the world, the pieces the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what... | |
 | Great Britain - 1886 - 924 pages
...his son or the State which allowed its members to grow up without knowing a pawn from a knight ? Yet it is a very plain and elementary truth that the life,...of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what... | |
 | 1868 - 874 pages
...son, or the state which allowed its members, to grow up without knowing a pawn from a knight ? Yet, it is a very plain and elementary truth that the life,...of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what... | |
 | Carl Adolf Buchheim - 1868 - 296 pages
...of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been p_ayed for untold ages : every man and woman of us being...of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chess-board is the world, the pieces the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what... | |
 | Great Britain - 1868 - 660 pages
...well-known picture has represented it) "a game which has been played for untold ages ; every man or woman being one of the two players in a game of his or her own." "The chess-board," he goes on, "is the world, the pieces the phenomena of the universe ; the rules of the... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution (Biology) - 1870 - 444 pages
...son, or the state which allowed its members, to grow up without knowing a pawn from a knight ? Yet it is a very plain and elementary truth, that the...of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - Christianity - 1870 - 174 pages
...fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those connected with us, do depend on our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely...of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what... | |
 | 1870 - 590 pages
...begins by insisting on the importance of our understanding the conditions and secrets of the play. ' It is a game which has been played for untold ages,...of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chess-board is the world, the pieces the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what... | |
 | Alexander MacLeod - Church and social problems - 1870 - 344 pages
...begins by insisting on the importance of our understanding the conditions and secrets of the play. " It is a game which has been played for untold ages,...of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chess-board is the world, the pieces the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what... | |
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