 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.  Ezra to Malachi - Página 291815Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1854 - 622 páginas
...unforeseen difficulties which it is impossible to overcome. Solomon says, " 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." In connection with some judicious remarks on Napoleon the First, Mr. Bullock has made some very brief... | |
 | Robert Walker - 1855 - 616 páginas
...this man, hath neither a head to contrive, nor hands to execute, shall prosper in all his plans. " 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." Men are too apt " to sacrifice... | |
 | University of South Carolina - 1855 - 44 páginas
...and then, if it does not come, comfort yourself with the thought that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ; neither yet...skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Like the miser, though in a very different spirit, and with reference to a very different wealth, you... | |
 | George Allarton - 1856 - 168 páginas
...PUBLIC, ABE EESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY ' , THEIE HUMBLE SEEVANT, THE AUTHOR. 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. — Eccles. ix. 11. PREFACE. LITTLE has been written about Doctors — much has been said about them,... | |
 | Rev. Henry Ives Bailey - 1857 - 870 páginas
...utter it ; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. Eccl. i. 4 to 8. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is...nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance bappeneth to them all. Eccl. ix. 11. Ye know not what shall be on the morrow ; for what is your life... | |
 | Unitarian pulpit - 1858 - 806 páginas
...that the continuance of life itself is involved in the deepest obscurity. " I returned," says he, " and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the...skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." A slight attention to events as they occur, and a slight reflection on them afterwards, may convince... | |
 | 1858 - 328 páginas
...might ; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. 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. This wisdom have I seen also under... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1858 - 1096 páginas
...with my country, is my unalterable determination.' " — SEWARD'S Life of John Qutncy Adams, p. 20. '' I returned, and saw under the sun that the race is...the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, ьог yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happen to them all." — Eccle»iwto, ix, 11.... | |
 | Arthur Wilcockson - 1859 - 714 páginas
...shall not say, I am sick ; for the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity." So " I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is...understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ;" " but God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty ; and base things... | |
 | 1859 - 802 páginas
...while the West is a good place to make fortunes, it has also been to many a good place to lose them. "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 all." There is a Providence in this, as in... | |
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