 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 632 pages
...enterprises never so hopeful, if he do but blow upon them, they are vanished. The race is not to the s-sijt, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise ; Eccl. ix. 11. What should we do then, but, first, look up to that Almighty Hand, that swayeth all... | |
 | James Hare - God - 1809 - 412 pages
...mother of children. 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; " for who knoweth not in all these that the hand " of the Lord hath wrought this ? The... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither 809 men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 12 For man also knoweth not his time : as... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 436 pages
...God, Heb. iv. 3. It tells us 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 : so far from it, it is the lame that take the prey, the weak are strong, and he that... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - Bible - 1811 - 434 pages
...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. Some consider this verse as the observation... | |
 | William Giles - Marriage - 1811 - 268 pages
...excelled in wisdom and in knowledge, 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 happeuetu to them all.' Trade, in all its branches is precarious,... | |
 | William Jay - Devotional literature - 1812 - 284 pages
...them often turning up contrary to their natural tendency— when we see that " the race is not to the swift, nor the " battle to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor " riches to men of understanding, nor favor to men of " skill"—our anticipations must be always liable... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1813 - 280 pages
...and saw under lhe sun, that the race is not to the swiff, —nor the battle to the strong,— neither yet bread to the wise, nor 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 pages
...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 - Sermons - 1814 - 552 pages
...success may be procured ; but "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." " Money is a defence," and hence it... | |
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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. 
