| George S. Brown - 1849 - 404 páginas
...with labor, we can get no human help j shall we go on with the meeting, or give it up ? I answered, as the battle is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift, let us go on in the name and strength of the holy One of Israel. And all the church said amen. And... | |
| George Bush - 1852 - 234 páginas
...an,l of humble dependence on the Divine blessing. Caleb in these words virtually acknowledges that the battle is not to the strong nor the race to the swift, and that the favorable presence of God with us in our undertakings is all in all to our success. The... | |
| Entries - 1853 - 320 páginas
...which it is carried on, are the just criterion. The issue of the contest has little to do with it. The battle is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift. Perseverance in a good cause, conducted upon right principles, is frequently successful, but not always... | |
| George Payne Rainsford James - 1853 - 394 páginas
...were all bright, blooming, beautiful. Health and long life seemed written on their fair faces ; but the battle is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift ; and one or other of those maladies of childhood which often make a cheerful household desolate, had... | |
| 1853 - 444 páginas
...under the impulse of the one master-mind, can war be safely undertaken or successfully carried on. " The battle is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift." The experience of the world justly assigns the palm of victory to Good Fortune." It ii not genius that... | |
| 1853 - 706 páginas
...enough money to pay the best talent, even if it were nightly crowded, was an additional evidence that the battle is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift, nor sensible investment always to the shrewdest. Hence resulted, of course, those melancholy efforts... | |
| 1855 - 582 páginas
...learned professor to results of a more comprehensive and decisive nature. But, as it is truly said, the " battle is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift," an inscrutable Providence lying between human perfections and accomplishments and success, which alone... | |
| 1856 - 604 páginas
...often the reverse of what, from looking at their antecedents, we should have been led to anticipate. "The battle is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift." The mighty man comes forth, like Goliath, fully equipped with the weapons of war, but is overcome by... | |
| Charles Roger - 1856 - 442 páginas
...provinces, and recommended fervent acknowledgements to the ruler of the universe, without whose aid the battle is not to the strong nor the race to the swift. And it was not alone for such advantages, great as they were, that the country had to be thankful,... | |
| Samuel F. Holbrook - 1857 - 508 páginas
...and for our national rights. The God of armies was with us, and we can truly say, that " the battk is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift. But we had among us, an enemy far more potent than the one we met. The strong opposition party, who, I... | |
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