 | Aesop - Fables - 1788 - 382 pages
...Application to Bufinefs makes Amends for the Want of a quick and ready Wit. Hence it is, that the Viftory is not always to the Strong, nor the Race to the Swift. Men of fine Parts are apt. to deftrife the Drudgery of Bufinefs; but, by affefting to mew the Superiority... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 592 pages
...hopeless probably of victory from their vast disparity in numbers to the huge hosts of their enemy. But the battle is not always to the strong, nor the race to the swift. At this anxious moment, the glory of the Lord is suddenly manifested in the midst of Jerusalem, and... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1809 - 412 pages
...hopeless probably, of victory from their vast disparity in numbers to the huge hosts of their enemy. But the battle is not always to the strong, nor the race to the swift. At this anxious moment, the glory of the Lord is suddenly manifested in the midst of Jerusalem, and... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1809 - 412 pages
...hopeless probably of victory from their vast disparity in numbers to the huge hosts of their enemy. But the battle is not always to the strong, nor the race to the swift. At this anxious moment, the glory of the Lord is suddenly manifested in the midst of Jerusalem, and... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1809 - 776 pages
...If the Spaniards arc true to each other, and avoid pitched battles, the haughty conqueror may know, that the battle is not always to the strong, nor the race ttothe swift. Yet he cannot be expected to be easily diverted from his purpose, and torrents of blood... | |
 | Animal painting and illustration - 1811 - 304 pages
...application to business make amends for the want of a quick and ready wit. Hence it is that the victory is not always to the strong, nor the race to the swift. Men of fine parts are apt to despise the drudgery of business : but, by affecting to shew the superiority... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1815 - 286 pages
...no agency in producing them, nor any ground for self-reproach as being in any way accessory to them. The battle is not always to the strong, nor the race to the swift ; nor is success in the pursuits of life invariably the effect of industry, economy, and moderation... | |
 | Martha Laurens Ramsay - 1815 - 288 pages
...no agency in producing them, nor any ground for self-reproach as being in any way accessory to them. The battle is not always to the strong, nor the race to the swift ; nor is success in the pursuits of life invariably the effect of industry, economy, and moderation... | |
 | Gerard Thomas Noel - Sermons - 1827 - 604 pages
...in this world. Vexation and disappointment, envy and mortification, strife and defeat, often attest, that " the battle is not always to the strong, nor the race to the swift," and that whoso drinketh of this troubled water, shall ultimately thirst again. " Had I but served my... | |
 | Matthew Stewart - Great Britain - 1831 - 140 pages
...credible when the relator lies in lucli a way as 4 to mingle a portion of truth with his falsehood.' That ' the battle is not always to the strong, nor the ' race always to the swift, but that time and chance ' happen to all men,' we are taught to expect from the... | |
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While extremists may find some fault with the moderation of our platform, they should recollect that " the battle is not always to the strong, nor the race to the swift. 
