...are prudent, energetic, and industrious, fail to attain some fair degree of worldly success ; but the race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong. Circumstances affect efforts, — promoting, arresting, or diverting them. The road to success is often...

...habits and even firm convictions are too often insufficient to keep the weak from falsehood and wrong. The history of Frederick II. showed that the race...great period that we propose to sketch in the present volume; — the history of our own country during this epoch of great Im rtance men and great causes...

...improbable that before they are sent to the bottom the navy of Turkey may have still further proof that the race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong, and that the little cargo-boats of the company will again challenge with success tho much vaunted blockade...

...that appeal must determine something. It is needless to look back to discuss theoretical right. The race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong. The question is, who shall prevail—who has prevailed ? In 1861 Tennessee, with her then state government...

...much to be done, great incentives toward doing it, great rewards when it is done. Spiritually, " the race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong." Physically and socially the world contradicts the spiritual teaching. The soundest health, the strongest...

...work. has been kept up to its present standard in the State. WE BASKETTE, Cor. Mem,. VERMONT. While the "race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong,'"" energetic effort rarely fails to accomplish a determined purpose. Thus the desires and labors of a...

...' She certainly doesn't look clever, or like a person capable of writing a successful book, but the race is not always to the swift or the battle to the strong,' added Barney, thinking of his own unappreciated novel, which had gone the round of nearly every London...

...fight ; neglected, or, if noticed at all, noticed but in scorn, are yet the truest conquerors. The race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong. For swiftness is but hurtful where the face is turned the wrong way, and strength is worse than weakness...

...will give all the others of the fleet the go-by. And one of the peculiar features of model racing is, that the race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong, for the yachtman's craft is not unfrequently beaten by the production of one whose only yacht is a...

...of 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 favor, it is our indispensable...