 | Robert Shittler - 1853 - 588 pages
...the grave, whither thou goest. 11 If I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of 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... | |
 | 1854 - 622 pages
...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...yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance, happeneth to them all." In connection with some judicious remarks on Napoleon the First, Mr. Bullock... | |
 | 1883 - 846 pages
...GAMES AND LOTTERIES. WE have it on very high authority, that ia human affairs 'the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ; neither yet...nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them alL' There are many events in the daily life of each of us which, as far as we can... | |
 | Church work with the sick - 1854 - 904 pages
...wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his time : as the fishes that are taken in an evil... | |
 | University of South Carolina - Universities and colleges - 1855 - 44 pages
...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...nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Like the miser, though in a very different spirit, and with reference to a very... | |
 | George Allarton - 1856 - 168 pages
...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...yet favour to men of skill ; but — time and chance happeneth to them all. — Eccles. ix. 11. PREFACE. LITTLE has been written about Doctors — much... | |
 | Rev. Henry Ives Bailey - 1857 - 870 pages
...filled with hearing. Eccl. i. 4 to 8. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...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 pages
...the deepest obscurity. " I returned," says he, " and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." A slight attention to events as they occur, and a slight reflection on them... | |
 | rev James Inglis - 1861 - 550 pages
...good, so is the sinner ; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath. 11. The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Jer. 12.1. Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee : yet let me talk... | |
 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell - 1860 - 378 pages
...implying, therefore, that they are not better. But Solomon tells us also, that " the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." " Time and chance ; " the hour of death after the accidents of life! We labour... | |
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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. 
