 | Theology - 1822 - 688 pages
...and onward. The reply to all this is, " 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 hapVol. IV.— No. 10. 67 peneth to them all." This doing whatever my hands find to do, which you recommend,... | |
 | William Jay - Families - 1833 - 518 pages
...upon every man to rise and prosper : " 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." There are those who have met with losses which no talent could have prevented.... | |
 | John Henry Hobart (bp. of New York.) - 1832 - 568 pages
...debar you feom victory. For in the mysterious course of God's providence, " 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." But, my brethren, there are examples of the uncertain issue of all human... | |
 | Cornelius Ives - Sermons, English - 1832 - 420 pages
...it is probable that the work of the wicked man will deceive him. " The " race is not always to the swift, nor the battle " to the strong, neither yet...yet favour to men of skill; but time and " chance happeneth to them all." (Eccles. ix. 11.) Accordingly, a wicked man will oftentimes be thwarted merely... | |
 | John Henry Hobart, William Berrian - Theology - 1832 - 522 pages
...traces of felicity behind. Alas ! " 1 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." Events, not according to the ordinary operation of the established laws of... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...cannot tell what shall be. Solomon. I retnrned, and saw nnder 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 happencth to them all. Ecctesiattcs . To thee we owe the beauties of the field, And earth's rich produce.... | |
 | William Jay - Calendars - 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...nor yet favour to men of 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... | |
 | 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...nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." And that, although these truths, like others recorded in Holy Writ, are conveyed,... | |
 | William Jay - Calendars - 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...nor yet favour to men of 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... | |
 | George Miller - Book industries and trade - 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...nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." And that, although these truths, like others recorded in Holy Writ, are conveyed,... | |
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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. 
