 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 pages
...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...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 ?" " He performeth the thing... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave, whither thou goest. ^f 11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 12 For man also knoweth not his time : as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds... | |
 | Johann Gaspar Spurzheim - 1833 - 246 pages
...their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.'f In another passage he continues : ' 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. 'J Physical evil, indeed, does not... | |
 | George Miller (of Dunbar) - 1833 - 422 pages
...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...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." And that, although these truths, like others recorded in Holy Writ, are conveyed, to make them the... | |
 | George Miller - 1833 - 428 pages
...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...skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." And that, although these truths, like others recorded in Holy Writ, are conveyed, to make them the... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 722 pages
...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...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 ?" " He performeth the thing... | |
 | Peter Dobell - 1834 - 108 pages
...of the Preacher to those who are only "wise in their own conceit:" Ecclesiastes, chap, ix, 11.—I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not...men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.—12th, For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as... | |
 | Franz Josef Gall - 1835 - 372 pages
...and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead." Ibid, ix. 2, 3. "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race...wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his time... | |
 | Hobart Caunter - 1836 - 416 pages
...faithful." SERMON XV. ON THE INSUFFICIENCY OF MAN. ECCLESIASTES, CHAP. IX. VERSE 11. 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. I CANNOT but recal to mind that, on the first day of the now nearly-departed year, I addressed you... | |
 | William Giles - 1836 - 172 pages
...low, and lifteth up : or with Him that excelled in wisdom and understanding, The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ; neither yet...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Trade, in all its branches, is precarious, and its advantages uncertain. The principles of mankind... | |
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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. 
