 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 436 sidor
...was finished in the decree and purpose of God, Heb. iv. 3. It tells us 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 skill : so far from it, it is the lame that take the prey, the weak are strong, and he that becomes a fool... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 484 sidor
...all. " Has he made any exception for Israel ? No : but " he maintains, that the race is not to the swift ; nor " the battle to the strong ; neither yet bread to the " wise ; nor yet riches to the men of understanding • " nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and " chance happeneth to... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 404 sidor
...practice and in the affairs of men) that the race is not to the Swift, nor the battle to the Strong ; nor yet bread to the Wise; nor yet riches to men of Understanding ; nor yet favour to nien of Skill: But time and chance happeneth to them all. However, let us take this matter at the best,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1813 - 280 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
 | William Jay - 1814 - 552 sidor
...may be well laid, every assistance necessary to success may be procured ; but "the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to " the strong, neither yet...skill ; but time and chance happeneth to " them all." " Money is a defence," and hence it is so anxiously desired, so universally pursued ; but how many... | |
 | 1814 - 496 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
 | 1815 - 614 sidor
...for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. 1 1 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is...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 net, and as the birds... | |
 | William Bates - 1815 - 530 sidor
...things, yet we many times fall short of our aims and hopes. It was the observation of the wisest man, "'I returned and saw under the sun, that the race...to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to all-." Indeed such is the order of divine providence in the world, there must be different conditions... | |
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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. 
