 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 pages
...wisdom and discretion. Our very recreations must not be sensual, but rational and industrious. IV. ^f I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is...nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Some consider this verse as the observation of another vanity under the sun,... | |
 | William Giles - 1811 - 268 pages
...ringeth low, and lifteth up: or with Him that excelled in wisdom and in knowledge, The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeuetu to them all.' Trade, in all its branches is precarious, and its advantages are uncertain.... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 436 pages
...was finished in the decree and purpose of God, Heb. iv. 3. It tells us that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...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 becomes a fool... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1813 - 280 pages
...• TIME AND CHANCE. I teturned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, — nor (he battle to the strong ; — neither yet bread to the...yet favour to men of skill,— but time and chance happeneth to them all. E'ccl. ix. 11. SERMON IX. p. 109. THE CHARACTER OF HEROD. Then was fulfilled... | |
 | 1815 - 614 pages
...for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. 1 1 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is...nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 12 For man also knoweth not his time : as the fishes that are taken in an evil... | |
 | William Bates - 1815 - 530 pages
...things, yet we many times fall short of our aims and hopes. It was the observation of the wisest man, "'I returned and saw under the sun, that the race...nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to all-." Indeed such is the order of divine providence in the world, there must be different... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 616 pages
...seen by those who have diligently observed human counsels and events, " that the race is not to the se.8 %3 happeneth to them all," Ecc. iz. 11. As all human affairs are liable to accidents and disasters, a... | |
 | 1815 - 294 pages
...forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished. The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happencth to them all. CHAP xxv nr. EVIL-SPEAKING,. PUT them in mind to speak evil of no man. Thou... | |
 | J. Coote - 1817 - 378 pages
...lie is raised up out of his holy habitation. 2d sermon. Eccles. ix. 10,11,18. I returned, and •aw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor...neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understand -<ng, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happenetb to them all. For man... | |
 | James Porter - 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...nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." Ex. 9. il. A man may have a fair prospect of success in an. undertaking, and... | |
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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. 
