 | John Pridham - 1826 - 438 pages
...at work in all mundane transactions. " 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 understand^ i , ' ** Gen. xxxix. 9. ing, nor yet favour to men of skill*." "The lot is cast into the... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 638 pages
...observed human counsels and events, " 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,". Ecc. ix. II. As all human affairs... | |
 | 1828 - 1042 pages
...I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, Y p favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 12 For man also knoweth not his... | |
 | 1822 - 688 pages
...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 hapVol. IV.— No. 10. 67 peneth to them all." This doing... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1828 - 620 pages
...declares, with irresistible evidence, 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 un" derstanding, nor yet favour to men of skill." In the transactions of every day, and particularly... | |
 | Herodotus - 1830 - 412 pages
...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...to men of skill : but time and chance happeneth to them all.' calamities which threaten you. I will now explain the other : — the land is also your... | |
 | John Stark Ravenscroft (bp. of North Carolina.) - 1830 - 642 pages
...happiness and enjoyment. In these, the race is not always 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 there is a controling Providence, in whose hand second causes are often... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1830 - 606 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 jet favour to men of skill.'* ART. II. — 1. On Credit Currency, By S. Paulett Scrope, Esq. London.... | |
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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. 
