 | 1826 - 608 oldal
...tenets, forcibly reminds us of a quaint but applicable passage in the Religio Medice of Sir T. Browne : " Thus the devil played at chess with me, and yielding...gain a queen of me, taking advantage of my honest endeavours, and whilst I laboured to raise the structure of my reason, he strived to undermine the... | |
 | 1831 - 370 oldal
...days of Moses ? the Israelite saw but that in his time, the natives of those countries behold in ours. Thus the devil played at chess with me, and yielding...gain a queen of me, taking advantage of my honest endeavours ; and whilst I labored to raise the * 1 Kings, xviii. structure of my reason, he strived... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 180 oldal
...Moses ; the Israelites saw but that in his time, which the natives of those countries behold in ours. Thus the devil played at chess with me, and yielding...gain a queen of me, taking advantage of my honest endeavours ; and whilst I laboured to raise the structure of my reason, he strived to undermine the... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 592 oldal
...Moses ?" The Israelites saw but that, in his time, which the natives of those countries behold in ours. Thus the devil played at chess with me, and, yielding...gain a queen of me ; taking advantage of my honest endeavours ; and, whilst I laboured to raise the structure of my reason, he strove to undermine the... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1841 - 346 oldal
...of Moses ? the Israelites saw but that in his time, the natives of those countries behold in ours. Thus the devil played at chess with me, and yielding...gain a queen of me, taking advantage of my honest endeavours ; and whilst I laboured to raise the structure of my reason, he strived to undermine the... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1844 - 238 oldal
...days of Moses 1 the Israelites saw but that in his time the natives of those countries behold in ours. Thus the devil played at chess with me, and yielding...gain a queen of me, taking advantage of my honest endeavours; and whilst I laboured to raise the structure of my reason, he strived to undermine the... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1845 - 412 oldal
...that in his time, which the natives of thofe countries behold in ours. Thus the devil played at chefs with me, and yielding a pawn, thought to gain a queen of me, taking advantage of my honeft endeavours; and whilft I laboured to raife the ftructure of my reafon, he ftrived to undermine... | |
 | 1884 - 668 oldal
...me an earlier allusion than the following, from Religio Medici (written 1635, published 1642)?—" Thus the Devil played at Chess with me, and yielding...gain a Queen of me, taking advantage of my honest endeavours; and whilst I laboured to raise the structure of my Reason, he strived to undermine the... | |
 | 1884 - 672 oldal
...give me an earlier allusion than the following, from Edigio Medici (written 1635, published 1642)?— "Thus the Devil played at Chess with me, and yielding...gain a Queen of me, taking advantage of my honest endeavours; and whilst I laboured to raise the structure of my Reason, he strived to undermine the... | |
 | George Clayton (jr.) - 1851 - 270 oldal
...natural causes. Thus the devil played at chess with me, and yielding a pawn thought to gain a queen from me, taking advantage of my honest endeavors ; and...whilst I labored to raise the structure of my reason, he strived to undermine the edifice of faith. — SIR THOMAS BROWNE. The time when the fall of Satan... | |
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Thus the devil played at chess with me, and yielding a pawn, thought to gain a queen of me, taking advantage of my honest endeavours; and whilst I laboured to raise the structure of my reason, he strived to undermine the edifice of my faith. 
