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. The Christian Monitor - Página 171806Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Francis Gastrell - 1812 - 378 páginas
...dust, and maketh the barren woman to be a joyful mother of children.. (*) The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither yet bread to the •wise, nor yet riehes to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; for who knoweth not in all these,... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1813 - 280 páginas
...TIME AND CHANCE. ECCLES. IX. 11. I returned and saw under lhe sun, that the race is not to the swiff, —nor the battle to the strong,— neither yet bread...yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour lo men of skill, — but time and chance haupeneth to them all. When a man casts a look upon this melancholy... | |
| William Huntington - 1819 - 886 páginas
...oh this text; " I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the buttle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favodr to men of skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all," Eccles ix. 11; and we had a very... | |
| 1814 - 496 páginas
...and represented in a striking light. " I returned and saw under the sun, that tlie race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to the men of skill ; but time and chanee happen to them all." And he also observed, that in... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1814 - 270 páginas
...encounter : — and yet, afterwards, in the ninth chapter, he observes, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ; — neither...wise, — nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor favour to men of skill ; — but time and chance happen to them all. — That there are secret workings... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1814 - 592 páginas
...appearances occur at first to perplex our understandings. Here, as of old, " the race is not " to the swift, nor the battle to the " strong, neither yet bread to the wise, " nor riches to men of understanding, '* nor favour to men of skill, but time *' and chance happen unto them... | |
| William Jay - 1814 - 552 páginas
...many run, but few obtain the prize ; and the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the ftrong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of underHanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Fame depends... | |
| William Bates - 1815 - 530 páginas
...the observation of the wisest man, "'I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to all-." Indeed such is the order of divine providence in the world, there... | |
| 1815 - 614 páginas
...in the grave, whither thou goest. 1 1 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...understanding, 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... | |
| 1815 - 294 páginas
...forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished. The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happencth to them all. CHAP xxv nr. EVIL-SPEAKING,. PUT them in mind to speak evil... | |
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