 | Thomas Lockerby - 1850
...equally woven. I returned, nnd saw under the sun, says the wisest of men, 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. For man, also, knoweth not his time ; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1850 - Страниц: 143
...observations and reflections upon the checkered state of things, which society exhibits. / returned, says he, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the...wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all. This is blank atheism. But others... | |
 | William Sherlock - 1851 - Страниц: 336
...on his own or other men's lives and fortunes. The wise man observed this long since, Eccl. ix. 1 1 : "I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is...skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." Some unusual and casual events change the fortunes of men, and disappoint the most proper and natural... | |
 | 1851 - Страниц: 1271
...there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. 1 1 II 1 returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is...wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yetfavour to men of skill; but time and chance huppeneth to them all. \-¿ For man also knoweth not... | |
 | T. Dalton - 1852
...good of every age have, intentionally or unintentionally, acquiesced in the sayings of the wise — " I returned, and saw under the sun that the race is...riches to men of understanding ; nor yet favour to men "if skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." For man also knoweth not his time, as the fishes... | |
 | 1853
...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 is...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 nis time... | |
 | John Kitto - 1853
...stream. — JOUKSON. PROVIDENCE. SPEAKING of Providence, the sage of Judah says (Ecclesiastes ix. 11) : "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." Plutarch, speaking of the Ronians, says, "Time and Fortune (the same with Solomon's " time and chance... | |
 | Robert Cox - 1853 - Страниц: 598
...; and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags."§§— The race, to be sure, is not always " to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...of skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all ;"|| || but still the experience of all times makes it certain that, accidents apart, it is the diligent,... | |
 | 1854 - Страниц: 669
...might ; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his time : as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that... | |
 | 1854
...unforeseen difficulties which it is impossible to overcome. Solomon says, " 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." In connection with some judicious remarks on Napoleon the First, Mr. Bullock has made some very brief... | |
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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. 
