 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
 | 1819 - 948 pàgines
...the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to Ihe " 5 12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds... | |
 | 1819 - 594 pàgines
...prospered ! Thus human calculations have been baffled, and it has been proved that'" the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither yet bread...the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding;" that " it is not in man that walketh to direct his iteps ;" and that " there are many devices ma man's... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - 1820 - 514 pàgines
...prosper in all his plans. ••• I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ; neither yet...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." Men are too apt " to VOL. u. p sacrifice to their own net, and to burn incense to their own drag."... | |
 | Francis Atterbury (bp. of Rochester.) - 1820 - 358 pàgines
...observer) that the race is not to the sutifl, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet riches to inen of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all, Eccl. ix. II. There is scarce any man, perhaps, who is not sensible, that the greatest turns that havi... | |
 | Herodotus - 1821 - 498 pàgines
...expressed in Ecclesiastes, ix. 11. " 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, rior yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth... | |
 | George Holden - 1822 - 316 pàgines
...power, but they (*. e. the oppressed) had no comforter ;" (ch. iv. 1 ;) that " the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all;" (ch. ix. 11 ;) that " the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in... | |
 | George Woodley - 1822 - 374 pàgines
...works of much higher claims than are here advanced. " The race," says the Wise Man, " is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor favour to men of skill." Having been repeatedly solicited, however, as well by several Gentlemen of... | |
 | George Woodley - 1822 - 378 pàgines
...of much higher claims than are here b 2 -'advanced. " The race," says the Wise Man, " w not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor favour to men of skill." Having been repeatedly solicited, however, as well by several Gentlemen of... | |
 | James Murdock - 1823 - 316 pàgines
...of his wise and gracious Providence. " 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 riches to men of understanding, but time and chance happeneth to all ;" ie these events are regulated... | |
 | J Dennis Furley - 1824 - 188 pàgines
...endeavours, frail our present state; c [11] 1 returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all, d [12] For man also Icnowethnot his time: as the fishes that are taken [V. 11. 1 sawe that in runnynge,... | |
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