 | Exemplary and instructive biography - 1836 - 348 páginas
...illustrated in the volume before us. All may not be so successful as the subjects of our examples ; " the race is not always to the swift, neither the battle to the strong ;" but those who aspire from a rational feeling of emulation, in the way we have pointed out, will... | |
 | 1865 - 1042 páginas
...world's affairs in accordance with her own caprice. "We behold the same phenomenon which they did. The race is not always to the swift, neither the battle to the strong. Persons fit for offices of emolument, honour and importance in church and in state, are kept in the... | |
 | Ernest Christian Wilford - 1859 - 92 páginas
...skilful and very courageous, knowing that the Lord your God " He it is that fighteth for you ; for the race " is not always to the swift, neither the battle to the " strong." With the blessing of England's God, are we not bound to transmit to our children that which our fathers... | |
 | 1892 - 648 páginas
...your heart and nerved your arm. Do this, we say, and let him who would discourage you beware, for "the race is not always to the swift, neither the battle to the strong." "And claim no crown they will not give." What need have you of earthly crowns? "Truth forever on the... | |
 | Anna Adams Gordon - 1898 - 452 páginas
...listen to the voice of that inspired philosophy, which through all ages has been gently saying: ' The race is not always to the swift, neither the battle to the strong. ' ' ' The WCTU stands as the exponent, not alone of that return to physical sanity which will follow... | |
 | Anna Adams Gordon - 1898 - 458 páginas
...listen to the voice of that inspired philosophy, which through all ages has been gently saying: 'The race is not always to the swift, neither the battle to the strong. ' "The WCTU stands as the exponent, not alone of that return to physical sanity which will follow the... | |
 | Frances Elizabeth Willard - 1905 - 186 páginas
...listen to the voice of that inspired philosophy, which through all ages has been gently saying: "The race is not always to the swift, neither the battle to the strong." Woman's everlastingly befrilled, bedizined and bedraggled style of dress is today doing more harm to... | |
 | Anna Adams Gordon - 1912 - 410 páginas
...listen to the voice of that inspired philosophy which through all ages has been gently saying: "The race is not always to the swift, neither the battle to the strong." The Woman's Christian Temperance Union stands as the exponent, not alone of that return to physical... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1924 - 784 páginas
...cave, and the eyes of the Sikhs followed their sponsor as those of a chela follows his jhogi. But the race is not always to the swift, neither the battle to the strong. Next morning something very prompt happened. The Agha and his Kurdish men-at-arms had reckoned on the... | |
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... whirlwind is less powerful than the silence of the dew. It has ransacked history and learned that the banner and the sword were never yet the symbols of man's grandest victories, and it begins at last to listen to the voice of that inspired philosophy,... 