| Zebulon Ely, Ezra Stiles Ely - 1825 - 64 sidor
...often very earjy blasted. It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding. — For riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away, as an eagle towards heaven." The most... | |
| George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 sidor
...the grave, whither thou goest. 1 1 ^ I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race it not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...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... | |
| 1840 - 538 sidor
...but of God that showeth mercy ;" yes, in a small measure we have proved that " the 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 to men of skill." How wonderful are God's ways ! truly they are past finding out. but as he himself... | |
| John Pridham - 1826 - 438 sidor
...itself for the good of man, is evidently 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 sidor
...seen by those who have diligently observed human counsels and events, " that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all,". Ecc. ix. II. As all human affairs are liable to accidents and disasters, a firm persuasion, and serious... | |
| William Jevons - 1827 - 412 sidor
...foresee, may counteract the wisest and the best conducted schemes. " The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill."* This is the necessary result of that liability to natural calamity, which is another feature of our... | |
| 1827 - 842 sidor
...that the race unollo the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nur vet p +0@ +0` +0 12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and a; the birds... | |
| 1828 - 1042 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
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