In short," as our friend expressed himself, " the dragoons and Highlanders divided the honours of the day, and on that occasion, at least, the race was to the swift, and the battle to the strong. The Quarterly Review - Page 176edited by - 1827Full view - About this book
| Theodore Dreiser - Literary Collections - 1920 - 334 pages
...could not possibly overcome. And there were other phases which previously I had scarcely suspected. The race was to the swift and the battle to the strong. All great successes, as I was beginning to discover for myself, were relatively gifts, the teachings... | |
| Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - Democracy - 1920 - 220 pages
...artificial, timeworn standards or classifications, but it did admit differences of attainment, for the race was to the swift and the battle to the strong. Even political leadership, provided the leader made no assumption of superior intelligence or erudition,... | |
| Arthur Compton-Rickett - Authors, English - 1906 - 250 pages
...as that of the bees, " the ape and tiger " instincts are found dormant. It was based on selfishness. The race was to the swift and the battle to the strong. Even then, however, in the earliest grouping of a few families into clans, the blood tie, whose source... | |
| Thomas W. Dunlay - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 568 pages
...Indian to discover his vicinity to a trapper. The trapper's shot informed him of that, and afterwards the race was to the swift, and the battle to the strong. Besides this acknowledged necessity for fighting whenever Indians were met with in the Blackfeet and... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1878 - 810 pages
...pursuits, the more ambitious spirits in the German bourgeoisie have sought the only field of honor in which the race was to the swift and the battle to the strong. We may smile at the small salaries of the German Professor, but when compared with other government... | |
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