 | 1822 - Počet stránok 688
...and onward. The reply to all this is, " I returned, and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance hapVol. IV.— No. 10. 67 peneth to them all." This doing whatever my hands find to do, which you recommend,... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - Počet stránok 518
...upon every man to rise and prosper : " I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." There are those who have met with losses which no talent could have prevented.... | |
 | John Henry Hobart (bp. of New York.) - 1832 - Počet stránok 568
...debar you feom victory. For in the mysterious course of God's providence, " the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, 'neither yet...nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them .'all." But, my brethren, there are examples of the uncertain issue of all human... | |
 | Cornelius Ives - 1832 - Počet stránok 420
...it is probable that the work of the wicked man will deceive him. " The " race is not always to the swift, nor the battle " to the strong, neither yet...yet favour to men of skill; but time and " chance happeneth to them all." (Eccles. ix. 11.) Accordingly, a wicked man will oftentimes be thwarted merely... | |
 | John Henry Hobart, William Berrian - 1832 - Počet stránok 522
...traces of felicity behind. Alas ! " 1 returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." Events, not according to the ordinary operation of the established laws of... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - Počet stránok 548
...cannot tell what shall be. Solomon. I retnrned, and saw nnder the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happencth to them all. Ecctesiattcs . To thee we owe the beauties of the field, And earth's rich produce.... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - Počet stránok 704
...every kind of statement — " Who knoweth what is good for man in this life ?" ."The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of skill : but time and chance happeneth to them all." " Man's goings are of the Lord ; how can a man then understand his own way... | |
 | George Miller (of Dunbar) - 1833 - Počet stránok 422
...confirmation from the experience of mankind, in every age of the world, viz. " That the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong: neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." And that, although these truths, like others recorded in Holy Writ, are conveyed,... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - Počet stránok 722
...every kind of statement — "-Who knoweth what is good for man in this life?" " The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of skill : but time and chance happeneth to them all." " Man's goings are of the Lord ; how can a man then understand his own way... | |
 | George Miller - 1833 - Počet stránok 428
...confirmation from the experience of mankind, in every age of the world, viz. " That the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong : neither yet...nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." And that, although these truths, like others recorded in Holy Writ, are conveyed,... | |
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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. 
