 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.  Visitor: Or Monthly Instructor - Pàgina 4611843Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 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...men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all;" (ch. ix. 11 ;) that " the oppression of the poor, and... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 508 pàgines
...done under the sun, that there is one event unto all. I saw under the sun, 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 ; but time and chance happeneth to all men. That which befalleth the sons of men, befalleth beasts,... | |
 | 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...of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all, d [12] For man also Icnowethnot his time: as the fishes... | |
 | 1868 - 346 pàgines
...is a truth of which illustrations present themselves to us every day, 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 ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." Do what some people will, everything seems to come to... | |
 | John BULL (Curate of Clipston.) - 1824 - 420 pàgines
...ii. 6—8. favour or displeasure of God towards any man on earth. " The race is not" always " to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all ; c that is, all these things are... | |
 | William Hendry STOWELL - 1825 - 236 pàgines
...returned and saw under the sun," says Solomon, " that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle tp the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet...of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." Failures, therefore, cannot always be eluded by the most... | |
 | Zebulon Ely, Ezra Stiles Ely - 1825 - 64 pàgines
...often very earjy blasted. It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. 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. — For riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away, as an eagle towards heaven." The most... | |
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