 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 556 pages
...A fool also is full of words : a man cannot tell what shall be. Solomon. I retnrned, and saw nnder the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the...nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happencth to them all. Ecctesiattcs . To thee we owe the beauties of the field, And earth's rich produce.... | |
 | Cornelius Ives - 1832 - 422 pages
...it is probable that the work of the wicked man will deceive him. " The " race is not always to the swift, nor the battle " to the strong, neither yet...skill; but time and " chance happeneth to them all." (Eccles. ix. 11.) Accordingly, a wicked man will oftentimes be thwarted merely in the common course... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 pages
...every kind of statement — " Who knoweth what is good for man in this life ?" ."The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...skill : but time and chance happeneth to them all." " Man's goings are of the Lord ; how can a man then understand his own way ?" " He performeth the thing... | |
 | John Henry Hobart, William Berrian - 1832 - 522 pages
...THE SWIFT. ECCLIS. iz. 11. t returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the su ill . nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to...nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happened) to them all. THE universe is governed by that almighty Being whose power called it into existence.... | |
 | Johann Gaspar Spurzheim - 1833 - 248 pages
...their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.'f In another passage he continues : ' I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is...wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill : but time and chance happeneth to them all. 'J Physical evil, indeed, does not... | |
 | George Miller - 1833 - 428 pages
...confirmation from the experience of mankind, in every age of the world, viz. " That the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong : neither yet...skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." And that, although these truths, like others recorded in Holy Writ, are conveyed, to make them the... | |
 | George Miller (of Dunbar) - 1833 - 426 pages
...confirmation from the experience of mankind, in every age of the world, viz. " That the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong: neither yet bread...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." And that, although these truths, like others recorded in Holy Writ, are conveyed, to make them the... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 722 pages
...every kind of statement — "-Who knoweth what is good for man in this life?" " The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...skill : but time and chance happeneth to them all." " Man's goings are of the Lord ; how can a man then understand his own way ?" " He performeth the thing... | |
 | Peter Dobell - 1834 - 108 pages
...of the Preacher to those who are only "wise in their own conceit:" Ecclesiastes, chap, ix, 11.—I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not...men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.—12th, For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as... | |
 | Franz Joseph Gall - 1835 - 376 pages
...and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead." Ibid, ix. 2, 3. "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race...wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his time... | |
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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. 
