 | Herodotus - 1821 - 498 Seiten
...addition to your V *9 fortune commands men.] — This sentiment is beautifully expressed in Ecclesiastes, ix. 11. " I returned and saw under the sun, that the...battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, rior yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth... | |
 | George Holden - 1822 - 316 Seiten
...power, but they (*. e. the oppressed) had no comforter ;" (ch. iv. 1 ;) that " the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all;" (ch. ix. 11 ;) that " the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 546 Seiten
...33. The lot is east into the lap ; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. Ecclcs. ix. II. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is...swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread in the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor vet favour to men of skill ; but time and... | |
 | George Woodley - 1822 - 378 Seiten
...of much higher claims than are here b 2 -'advanced. " The race," says the Wise Man, " w not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor favour to men of skill." Having been repeatedly solicited, however, as well by several Gentlemen of... | |
 | George Woodley - 1822 - 374 Seiten
...works of much higher claims than are here advanced. " The race," says the Wise Man, " is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor favour to men of skill." Having been repeatedly solicited, however, as well by several Gentlemen of... | |
 | James Murdock - 1823 - 316 Seiten
...charity ? — it is the gift of God, these are the bounties of his wise and gracious Providence. " I returned and saw under the Sun, that the race is...battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise nor riches to men of understanding, but time and chance happeneth to all ;" ie these events are regulated... | |
 | J Dennis Furley - 1824 - 188 Seiten
...merit claims. d Hence may we learn, how weak Our own endeavours, frail our present state; c [11] 1 returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is...nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all, d [12] For man also Icnowethnot his time: as the fishes that are taken [V. 11.... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 504 Seiten
...This also is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all. I saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift,...nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to all men. That which befalleth the sons of men, befalleth beasts, even one thing befalleth... | |
 | 1868 - 346 Seiten
...is a truth of which illustrations present themselves to us every day, that " the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." Do what some people will, everything seems to come to nought. Men fail who... | |
 | John BULL (Curate of Clipston.) - 1824 - 420 Seiten
...ii. 6—8. favour or displeasure of God towards any man on earth. " The race is not" always " to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all ; c that is, all these things are... | |
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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. 
