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" race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong. "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 640
1867
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The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the transactions of the turf ...

1856 - 722 lehte
...chcsnut mare ; I'll see if I can't cut him down, at any rate"; ami away went the Baronet after him. " The race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong," thoiiL'ht Beverley, as heciintcred along a grass lane, with a line of gates, by the side of Harriet...
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The Lady's Magazine and Museum of the Belles-lettres, Fine Arts ..., 4. köide

1834 - 442 lehte
...and proud distinction raised his name aloft. In genius, as in most things of mortal existence, the race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong. There are few days so gloomy that a chance sunbeam will not brighten — few fortunes so low that accident...
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The Christian examiner and Church of Ireland magazine

1826 - 518 lehte
...their eyes taken away at a stroke — and it can lower the pride of conquest with that truth — "the race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong." But it has not a word for the self-deceiver in religion. Man may have his hope as high as heaven, and...
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Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society, 2. köide

New Hampshire Historical Society - 1827 - 318 lehte
...it— that, although we cannot, by the best concerted plans, absolutely command success ; although the race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong, yet without presumptuously waiting for miracles to be wrought in our favour, it is our indispensable...
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Uncle Horace, by the author of 'Sketches of Irish character'.

Anna Maria Hall - 1837 - 976 lehte
...me." " Protect you," said Uncle Horace. " Gad so ! you are a pretty fellow to protect, truly." " The race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong," replied Peter, shaking his head, and with an aspect of meekness and devotion which did not at all accord...
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Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge..., 4. köide

1837 - 488 lehte
...of anticipated victory, rushed upon their antagonists in great disorder. The result proved that the "race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong." Both parties engaged hand to hand, but a few minutes decided the battle in favour of the whites. Thirty-six...
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The Family Magazine, 4. köide

1837 - 490 lehte
...of anticipated victory, rushed upon their antagonists in great disorder. The result proved that the "race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strnnsr " limb parties engaged hand to hand, but a few minutes decided the battle in favour of the...
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Uncle Horace: A Novel, 1. köide

Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1838 - 222 lehte
...me." " Protect you," said Uncle Horace. " Gad so ! you are a pretty fellow to protect, truly." " The race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong," replied Peter, shaking his head, with an aspect of meekness and devotion which did not at all accord...
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The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'., 36. köide

John William Carleton - 1856 - 802 lehte
...ehesnut mare ; I'll see if I can't cnt him down, at any rate"; and away went the Baronet after him. "The race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong," thought lieverley, as he cantered along a grass lane, with a line of gates, by the sido of Harriet...
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The lieutenant, and the crooked midshipman, by a naval officer, author of ...

Augustus Collingridge - 1844 - 642 lehte
...nothing, beyond an unarmed merchantman, had been supposed to lay concealed. As a proof, however, that the race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong; after a chase of many hours, during which, nothing of heavier calibre than the forecastle guns of the...
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