 | J. Coote - 1817 - 378 pages
...Hendon. Rev. Williams. Eccles. ix. 11. 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 happeueth to them all. Islington.... | |
 | England - 1856 - 838 pages
...tradesman — which proclaim that in t/iat field, at least, the race neither it, nor shall be, to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of under standing, nor yet favourtomenof skill i* Istheexisting state of things, in short, calculated... | |
 | Peter Smith - Sermons - 1818 - 510 pages
...race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor riches to men of understanding, nor favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.'.' We observe also, that many fortunate incidents occur, in the lives of individuals, which are brought... | |
 | Bible - 1819 - 948 pages
...is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to Ihe wise, nor yet riches to 0 5 12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds... | |
 | 1819 - 594 pages
...prospered ! Thus human calculations have been baffled, and it has been proved 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;" that " it is not in man that walketh to direct his iteps ;" and that " there... | |
 | James Porter - Bible - 1819 - 34 pages
...other object of his pursuit. He is entirely dependent upon God for success. 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."... | |
 | 1828 - 818 pages
...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 ;m<l chance happeneth to all men." Now, Sir, I am conscious to myself, that I am neither swift, nor... | |
 | Francis Atterbury (bp. of Rochester.) - 1820 - 358 pages
...observer) that the race is not to the sutifl, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet riches to inen of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all, Eccl. ix. II. There is scarce any man, perhaps, who is not sensible, that the greatest turns that havi... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1820 - 514 pages
...prosper in all his plans. ••• 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." Men... | |
 | Herodotus - 1821 - 498 pages
...expressed in Ecclesiastes, ix. 11. " 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, rior yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth... | |
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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. 
