 | 1828 - 1042 pages
...for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. 11 11 ?1 12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds... | |
 | 1822 - 688 pages
...again the ironical stile, and says, "Go thy waj," &c. — v. 7- and onward. The reply to all this is, " I returned, and saw under the sun that the race is...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,... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1828 - 568 pages
...man, the experience of every day, declares with irresistible evidence, that " The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...men of •understanding, nor yet favour to men of skili." In the transactions of every day, and particularly in those of any importance, a considerate... | |
 | 1830 - 1070 pages
...device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goost. 11 IT I returned, and saw nnder the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the...understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chanco happeneth to them all. 12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in... | |
 | Herodotus - 1830 - 412 pages
...and not men fortune. This is one of the 1 This sentiment is beautifully expressed in Ecclesiastes. ' 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.' calamities which threaten you.... | |
 | John Stark Ravenscroft (bp. of North Carolina.) - 1830 - 642 pages
...industriously pursued schemes of worldly happiness and enjoyment. In these, the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but there is a controling Providence, in whose hand second causes are often turned round from their usual... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1830 - 622 pages
...national misfortune in the language of the wise roan — ' I returned, and saw under the sun that there is neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men...of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill.'* 'in ' '" i nin ' -J " -' ART. II. — 1. On Credit Currency, By S, Paulett Scrope, Esq. London, 1830.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1830 - 620 pages
...national misfortune in the language of the wise man — ' I returned, and saw under the sun that there is neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men...of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill.'* ART. II. — 1. On Credit Currency. By S. Paulett Scrope, Esq. London. 1830. 2. Abstract Propositions... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 518 pages
...their secular condition : but they are not It does not depend upon every man to rise and prosper : " I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is...skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." There are those who have met with losses which no talent could have prevented. Every time they havo... | |
 | 1849 - 1188 pages
...and princes walking as servants upon the earth." (He would see it now, if he were alive.) (9: 11) — "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." (He knew no better. He thought so... | |
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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. 
