| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 sider
...acquaintance who was also learning it, used often to tempt me to play chess with him. Finding this took up too much of the time I had to spare for study, I at length...have a right to impose a task, either of parts of tiie grammar to be got by heart, or in translations, &c. which tasks the vanquished was to perform... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 sider
...who was also learning it, used often to tempt ine to play chess with him : finding this took up too much of the time I had to spare for study, I at length...more, unless on this condition, that the victor in ercry game should have a right to impose a task, either of parts of the grammar to be got by heart,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 484 sider
...acquaintance, who was also learning it, used often to tempt me to play chess with him. Finding this took up too much of the time I had to spare for study, I at length...more, unless on this condition, that the victor in t'very game should have a right to impose a task, either of parts of the grammar to be got by heart,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 464 sider
...more, unless on this condition that the victor ia every game should have a right to iuipotie a tank, either of parts of the grammar to be got by heart, or in translations, Sic., which tasks the vanquished wat to perform upon honour before our next meeting. As we played pretty... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 sider
...learning it, used often to tempt me to play chess with him: finding this took up too much of the time { had to spare for study, I at length refused to play...any more, unless on this condition, that the victor ill every game should have a right to impose a task, either of parts of the grammar to be got by heart,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 668 sider
...— EDITOR. also learning it, used often to tempt me to play chess with him. Finding this took up too much of the time I had to spare for study, I at length...the grammar to be got by heart, or in translations, which tasks the vanquished was to perform upon honor before our next meeting. As we played pretty equally,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 sider
...Franklin.— EDITOR. also learning it, used often to tempt me to play chess with him. Finding this took up too much of the time I had to spare for study, I at length...the grammar to be got by heart, or in translations, which tasks the vanquished was to perform upon honor before our next meeting. As we played pretty equally,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 sider
...— EDITOR. also learning it, used often to tempt me to play chess with him. Finding this took up too much of the time I had to spare for study, I at length...the grammar to be got by heart, or in translations, which tasks the vanquished was to perform upon honor before our next meeting. As we played pretty equally,... | |
| 1852 - 644 sider
...to make a good Chess-player ; and will the possession of them not do yeoman's sen-ice to any man, he his profession or calling what it may ? To the objection,...have a right to impose a task, either of parts of ths grammar to be got by heart, or in translations, &.C., which tasks the vanquished was to perform... | |
| Theodore Alois Buckley - 1853 - 446 sider
...acquaintance who was learning it, used often to tempt me to play chess with him. Finding this took up too much of the time I had to spare for study, I at length...the grammar to be got by heart, or in translations, which tasks the vanquished was to perform upon honour before our next meeting. As we played pretty... | |
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