 | William Jevons - Ethics - 1827 - 412 pages
...foresee, may counteract the wisest and the best conducted schemes. " The race is not always 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."* This is the necessary result of that liability to natural calamity, which... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 638 pages
...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. ix. II. As all human... | |
 | 1827 - 842 pages
...wisdom, in the grave, whither thou guest. 1111 returned, and saw under the sun, that the race unollo the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nur vet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth... | |
 | Theology - 1822 - 688 pages
...stile, and says, "Go thy waj," &c. — v. 7- and onward. The reply to all this is, " I returned, and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor...wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance hapVol. IV.— No. 10. 67 peneth to them all." This... | |
 | 1828 - 1042 pages
...nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. 11 11 I returned, and saw ? @ 1 2 3 4 5 6 " ' yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 12 For man also knoweth not... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Congregational churches - 1828 - 568 pages
...man, the experience of every day, declares with irresistible evidence, 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 skili." In the transactions of every day, and particularly in those of any importance,... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Congregational churches - 1828 - 604 pages
...man, the experience of every day declares, with irresistible evidence, 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 un" derstanding, nor yet favour to men of skill." In the transactions of every day, and particularly... | |
 | James Jones (minister.) - 1828 - 228 pages
...human beings. The ancient heathens had never read, in the Scriptures, that " the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." Eccles. ix. 11. Yet they were... | |
 | Herodotus - 1830 - 412 pages
...This is one of the 1 This sentiment is beautifully expressed in Ecclesiastes. ' 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 favor to men of skill : but time and chance happeneth to them all.' calamities which threaten you.... | |
 | 1830 - 1070 pages
...device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goost. 11 IT I returned, and saw nnder the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the...wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chanco happeneth to them all. 12 For man also knoweth not... | |
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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. 
