 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.  Guide to Domestic Happiness - Pàgina 90per William Giles - 1836 - 138 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 436 pàgines
...was finished in the decree and purpose of God, Heb. iv. 3. It tells us that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill : so far from it, it is the lame that take the prey, the weak are strong, and he that becomes a fool... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 484 pàgines
...all. " Has he made any exception for Israel ? No : but " he maintains, that the race is not to the swift ; nor " the battle to the strong ; neither yet bread to the " wise ; nor yet riches to the men of understanding • " nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and " chance happeneth to... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 404 pàgines
...practice and in the affairs of men) that the race is not to the Swift, nor the battle to the Strong ; nor yet bread to the Wise; nor yet riches to men of Understanding ; nor yet favour to nien of Skill: But time and chance happeneth to them all. However, let us take this matter at the best,... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - 1812 - 378 pàgines
...dust, and maketh the barren woman to be a joyful mother of children.. (*) The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither yet bread to the •wise, nor yet riehes to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; for who knoweth not in all these,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1813 - 280 pàgines
...TIME AND CHANCE. ECCLES. IX. 11. I returned and saw under lhe sun, that the race is not to the swiff, —nor the battle to the strong,— neither yet bread...yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour lo men of skill, — but time and chance haupeneth to them all. When a man casts a look upon this melancholy... | |
 | William Huntington - 1819 - 886 pàgines
...oh this text; " I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the buttle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favodr to men of skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all," Eccles ix. 11; and we had a very... | |
 | 1814 - 496 pàgines
...and represented in a striking light. " I returned and saw under the sun, that tlie race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to the men of skill ; but time and chanee happen to them all." And he also observed, that in... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1814 - 270 pàgines
...encounter : — and yet, afterwards, in the ninth chapter, he observes, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ; — neither...wise, — nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor favour to men of skill ; — but time and chance happen to them all. — That there are secret workings... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1814 - 592 pàgines
...appearances occur at first to perplex our understandings. Here, as of old, " the race is not " to the swift, nor the battle to the " strong, neither yet bread to the wise, " nor riches to men of understanding, '* nor favour to men of skill, but time *' and chance happen unto them... | |
 | William Jay - 1814 - 552 pàgines
...many run, but few obtain the prize ; and the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the ftrong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of underHanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Fame depends... | |
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