 | Arabic language - 1850 - 534 pages
...fTlpD1),, ' and the same chance happens to them both.' See also Eccles. ix. 11, ' The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.' 1 Literally, 'I too feigned blindness, till it was said (ie 'supposed') that I was really... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1850 - 910 pages
...there is often great injustice, and the adage is constantly exemplified, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but time and chance happeneth to them all. Of the modern poets of Wales, a host may be named. Among these are Gwilym Ddu, Goronwy... | |
 | Richard Lowndes - 1850 - 136 pages
...troubled life. He was, however, but another example of the truth of those words, " The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." Deep sorrows early cast their shade across his heart; trials fell thick and fast upon... | |
 | Agriculture - 1852 - 486 pages
...prediction may prove true, and thanks to a higher power, it may not prove true. " The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong — but time and chance happeneth to them all." I have watched the progress of the potato disease for ten years, and I have read the... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1853 - 826 pages
...goest." But he can give little reason for this advice, when he observes, that " the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but time and chance happeneth to them all" (ch. ix. 1). Even wisdom seems of little value when the poor man's wisdom is despised,... | |
 | Europe - 1856 - 270 pages
...word, we shall see ; but we should none of us boast, remembering who has said, " The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ;" but " time and chance happeneth to all men." THE BATTLE OF THE ALMA, On the 20th of September, 1854, the Allied armies of the English... | |
 | Samuel Sharpe - Bible - 1858 - 324 pages
...goest." But he can give little reason for this advice, when he observes, that "the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but time and chance happeneth to them all" (ix, 11). Even wisdom seems of little value when the poor man's wisdom is despised, and... | |
 | Sabbath-day - Christian life - 1866 - 192 pages
...misfortune. I once reminded my friend that a competent judge of human affairs said, " The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ; but time and chance happeneth to all men ;" and that the Lord, who was not only poor and afflicted, but was the friend of publicans... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave. Eccles. ix. 10. The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. But time and chance happeneth to them all. Eccles. ix. n. Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1870 - 742 pages
...a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them as we will." The third is, " The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong " ; but time and chance happen(eth) to them all. • Accident, human will, the shaping will of Deity : these things make up life. Or rather,... | |
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Christians are men and women, too; both are surely human beings, and it is quite likely that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but time and chance happeneth to them all. 
