 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...  Autobiography and Essays - Page 21by Thomas Henry Huxley - 1919 - 276 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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...the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been played for untold ages, every man and woman of... | |
 | 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,...the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been played for untold ages : every man and woman of... | |
 | 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,...the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been played for untold ages, every man and woman of... | |
 | 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,...the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been played for untold ages, every man and woman of... | |
 | Carl Adolf Buchheim - 1868 - 296 pages
...son, or the State which allowed its members, to grow up without knowing a pawn from a knight ? Now, it is a very plain and elementary truth that the life,...happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of thoso who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 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...the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been played for untold ages, every man and woman of... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1870 - 174 pages
...son, or the state which allowed its members, to grow up without knowing a pawn from a knight 1 ' Yet it is a very plain and elementary truth that the life,...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 more difficult... | |
 | Luther Tracy Townsend - 1871 - 254 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,...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 more difficult... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1871 - 210 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 more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been played for untold ages, every man and woman of... | |
 | William Woods Smyth - 1873 - 412 pages
...is fully perceived, when it is said, " That the people perish for lack of knowledge." In the words,0 "It is a very plain and elementary truth, that the...happiness of every one of us, and more or less of those connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something" of the phenomena and laws of the universe.... | |
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