 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 638 páginas
...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...skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all,". Ecc. ix. II. As all human affairs are liable to accidents and disasters, a firm persuasion, and serious... | |
 | William Jevons - 1827 - 412 páginas
...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...of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill."* This is the necessary result of that liability to natural calamity, which is another feature of our... | |
 | 1827 - 842 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1828 - 1042 páginas
...for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. 11 11 ?1 12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds... | |
 | 1822 - 688 páginas
...again the ironical 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...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,... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1828 - 568 páginas
...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...men of •understanding, nor yet favour to men of skili." In the transactions of every day, and particularly in those of any importance, a considerate... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1828 - 604 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1830 - 1070 páginas
...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...understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chanco happeneth to them all. 12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in... | |
 | Herodotus - 1830 - 412 páginas
...and not men fortune. This is one of the 1 This sentiment is beautifully expressed in Ecclesiastes. ' I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is...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.... | |
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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. 
