 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1881 - 306 pàgines
...babbler is no better. Eccles. ix. n, 1 6. I returned, and saw under the sun, that 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. ...Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength ; nevertheless the poor man's... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1881 - 312 pàgines
...babbler is no better. Eccles. ix. ir, 16. I returned, and saw under the sun, that 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. ...Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength; nevertheless the poor man's... | |
 | Edward Meyrick Goulburn - 1883 - 528 pàgines
...it is in the book of Ecclesiastes ; " I returned, and saw under the sun, that 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."2 In the passage before us the word " chances " is tantamount to " unexpected... | |
 | J. Edward Chamberlin - 1993 - 340 pàgines
...James translation of the Old Testament. I returned and saw under the sun, that 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. (Eccles. 9:11) This is plain speaking, after a fashion. But there's the difficulty:... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 pàgines
...living Outroars a dead lion. 9:11-12 I returned, and saw under the sun, that 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. For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net,... | |
 | Roger Lass - 1994 - 324 pàgines
...Part V: Historical postlude I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the strong, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to...nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Ecclesiastes 9: 1 1 10 The dissolution of Old English 10.1 Stasis, flux, transition1... | |
 | J. Laurie Snell - 1995 - 400 pàgines
...Mathematics and Physics King College / returned, and saw under the sun, that 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. (Ecclesiastes 9:11) ABSTRACT We introduce the "bandit model" as a simple example... | |
 | Carolyn Logan - 1997 - 410 pàgines
...a well-known verse from Ecdesiastes: I returned and saw under the sun, that 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. Here it is in modern English: Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pàgines
...Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. 1 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. BIBLE: HEBREW, Ecclesiastes, 9:11. 2 In short, Luck's always to blame. JEAN... | |
 | Ian Cumming - 1998 - 280 pàgines
...aptitude to acquire understanding. 'I returned, and saw under the sun, that 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.' l In De I' Esprit2 Helvetius had already stated that the good or bad conduct... | |
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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. 
