 | Frederick Frost (Missionary.) - Indians of North America - 1904 - 344 pages
...kind of weather for success. What do we learn from this ? We learn that the race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but time and chance happeneth to all things. The very next day I caught several fish just as we were paddling along, without turning... | |
 | Wilbur Dick Nesbit - American poetry - 1904 - 198 pages
...you may walk abroad In the face of mankind and your God. THE CLUTCH OF CHANCE The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. . . . But time and chance happeneth to them all. — Ecclesiastes. For the man who wins, there is pomp and pride, And the laurel wreath,... | |
 | American literature - 1916 - 350 pages
...divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will." The third is, " The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." Accident, human will, the shaping will of Deity, — these things make up life. FREDERICK... | |
 | Norway - 1925 - 34 pages
...long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone. The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but time and chance happeneth to them all. A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance; but by sorrow of the bean the spirit is broken.... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - American wit and humor - 1927 - 232 pages
...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. I am not so sure that Gibbon was right when he says the Christians were lucky in that... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - Biography - 1928 - 472 pages
...Christians are men and women, also. All are 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 53 53 I am not sure that Gibbon is right when he says that the Christians were lucky in... | |
 | Edward Theodore Chalmers Werner - China - 1928 - 780 pages
...which should be the only measure of success; for in the former case the race is not necessarily "to the swift nor the battle to the strong; but time and chance happeneth to them all." "What The idea which I have here attempted did She to set forth is well put in a verse... | |
 | Francisco Pugnaire, Fernando Valladares - Science - 1999 - 928 pages
...POPULATION LEVEL 753 V. THE COMMUNITY LEVEL 757 VI. CONCLUSIONS 760 REFERENCES 762 The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong but time and chance happeneth to them all. Ecclesiastes, 9: 1 1 I. INTRODUCTION The generation of energy by the burning of fossil... | |
 | Inge F. Goldstein, Martin Goldstein - Medical - 2002 - 360 pages
..."there is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow," than with Solomon that "the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong . . . but time and chance happeneth to them all." The assumption of randomness is a confession of ignorance. When we make it we are not... | |
 | Kent Gramm - History - 2002 - 242 pages
...blanket, and then get disorganized to a standstill by the Wilderness itself. Here the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but time and chance happeneth alike to them all. Longstreet had been a beneficiary of the Wilderness Effect in the morning. Hancock's... | |
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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. 
