 | Archibald Alison - Occasional sermons - 1815 - 312 pages
...appearances occur at first to perplex our understandings. Here, as of old, "the race is not .to the swift, nor the battle to the " strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor riches to u men of understanding, nor favour to men of skill, " but time and chance happen... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...in the grave, whither thou goest. 1 1 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... | |
 | William Bates - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 530 pages
...the observation of the wisest man, "'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... | |
 | England - 1856 - 838 pages
...tradesman — which proclaim that in t/iat field, at least, the race neither it, nor shall be, 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 favourtomenof skill i* Istheexisting state of... | |
 | J. Coote - 1817 - 378 pages
...Hendon. Rev. Williams. Eccles. ix. 11. 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 happeueth... | |
 | 1819 - 594 pages
...prospered ! Thus human calculations have been baffled, and it has been proved 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;" that " it is not in man that walketh to direct his iteps... | |
 | James Porter - Bible - 1819 - 34 pages
...other object of his pursuit. He is entirely dependent upon God for success. 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... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1820 - 514 pages
...prosper in all his plans. ••• 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... | |
 | Herodotus - 1821 - 498 pages
...expressed in Ecclesiastes, ix. 11. " 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, rior yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance... | |
 | George Holden - Bible - 1822 - 316 pages
...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 to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance... | |
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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. 
