 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.  The Christian Monitor - Page 171806Full view - About this book
 | James Jones (minister.) - 1828 - 228 pages
...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 - 642 pages
...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...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 usual... | |
 | Herodotus - 1830 - 412 pages
...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) - English literature - 1830 - 622 pages
...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.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1830 - 620 pages
...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 - Greece - 1830 - 542 pages
...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 - 472 pages
...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 - Theology - 1830 - 946 pages
...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... | |
 | English literature - 1830 - 606 pages
...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 - Theology - 1830 - 608 pages
...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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