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. Mothers and sons - Page 261by William Platt - 1857Full view - About this book
| 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
...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
...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
...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... | |
| 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
...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
...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... | |
| John Taylor - United States - 1820 - 378 pages
...yet under all these disadvantages, as wisdom and virtue are sometimes liable to error ; as the battle is not always to the strong, nor the race to the swift ; and as enquiry is the road to truth ; I shall endeavour to reconcile my respect for the court, with... | |
| Gerard Thomas Noel - Sermons - 1827 - 604 pages
...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... | |
| Robert Hall - Baptists - 1832 - 660 pages
...ends is not so indissolubly fixed as to preclude the possibility of disappointment, and the battle is not always to the strong, nor the race to the swift, nor riches to men of understanding, the votary of the world is never secure of his object, which frequently... | |
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