 | Francis Gastrell - 1812 - 378 pages
...dust, and maketh the barren woman to be a joyful mother of children.. (*) The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither yet bread to the •wise, nor yet riehes to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; for who knoweth not in all these,... | |
 | William Huntington - 1819 - 886 pages
...seek him early shall find him. I had a good time yesterday, I laboured all the day oh this text; " I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the buttle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1813 - 280 pages
...none of us liveth to himself.— —Rom. xiv. 7'. SERMON VIII. p. 107. • TIME AND CHANCE. I teturned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, — nor (he battle to the strong ; — neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men... | |
 | 1814 - 496 pages
...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...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 in the common... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1814 - 270 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | William Bates - 1815 - 530 pages
...things, yet we many 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...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 - 614 pages
...for there is no 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...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 his... | |
 | 1815 - 294 pages
...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,. PUT... | |
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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. 
