 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.  Visitor: Or Monthly Instructor - Seite 4611843Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Jones (minister.) - 1828
...human beings. The ancient heathens had never read, in the Scriptures, that " the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." Eccles. ix. 11. Yet they were... | |
 | John Stark Ravenscroft (bp. of North Carolina.) - 1830
...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...men of 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... | |
 | Herodotus - 1830
...beautifully expressed in Ecclesiastes. ' I returned and saw under the sun, 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 favor to men of skill : but time and chance happeneth to them all.' calamities which threaten you.... | |
 | 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
...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.... | |
 | 1830
...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... | |
 | Herodotus - 1830
...beautifully expressed in EMesiastes, ix. II. " I returned and saw under the snn, 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 under, standing, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." I will... | |
 | Herodotus - 1830
...expressed in Ei-cleslastes, ix. 1 1. ' - I returned and saw under the sun, that the rare is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of under. standing, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and i chance happpiletk to them all." I... | |
 | James Marsh - 1830 - 550 Seiten
...I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the batt'e to the stiong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to all." Indeed such is the order of divine providence... | |
 | 1830
...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.... | |
 | James Marsh - 1830
...turned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swill nor the battle to the stiong, neither y( bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to all." Indeed such is the order of divine providence... | |
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