 | 1814 - 496 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1814 - 270 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1815 - 614 pagina’s
...work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. 1 1 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift,...wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 12 For man also knoweth not... | |
 | William Bates - 1815 - 530 pagina’s
...times fall short of our aims and hopes. It was the observation of the wisest man, "'I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift,...wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to all-." Indeed such is the order of divine... | |
 | 1815 - 294 pagina’s
...forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished. The 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 favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happencth to them all. CHAP xxv nr. EVIL-SPEAKING,.... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 616 pagina’s
...seen by those who have diligently observed human counsels and events, " that the 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 favour to men of skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all," Ecc. iz. 11. As all human affairs... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1815 - 312 pagina’s
...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 u men of understanding, nor favour to men of skill, " but time and chance happen unto them... | |
 | J. Coote - 1817 - 378 pagina’s
...lie is raised up out of his holy habitation. 2d sermon. Eccles. ix. 10,11,18. I returned, and •aw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor...neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understand -<ng, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happenetb to them all. For man... | |
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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. 
