 | Sir John William Kaye - 1876 - 758 pages
...reign of anarchy had commenced, that every one might do as he liked, and take what he could get, that the race was to the swift and the battle to the strong, and that every man was his own. judge and collector. Saharunpore. And thus the prevailing faith of... | |
 | Frances Fuller Victor - 1877 - 636 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 and wherever Indians were met with in the... | |
 | 1878 - 616 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... | |
 | 1878 - 542 pages
...pursuits, the more ambitious spirits in the German hurt/Mule have sought the only field of honour 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 whan compared with other government... | |
 | 1878 - 538 pages
...the more ambitious spirits in the German bourgeoisie have sought the only field of honour 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... | |
 | George Matheson - 1885 - 442 pages
...evolutionary drama. The first is the period in which the physical element dominated over all beside — when the race was to the swift and the battle to the strong. The second is the period in which there appeared upon the field an antagonist to the physical element,... | |
 | 1890 - 880 pages
...onlookers was that Bannockburn was to be avenged, or the memory of Flodden effaced. But throughout the game the race was to the swift, and the battle to the strong, and the English team won on its merits — by a goal and a try. All that the vanquished Scots could... | |
 | Constance Caroline Woodhill Naden - 1891 - 302 pages
...generation ; and the same thing happened to man — at least in his earlier stages. In primeval days the race was to the swift and the battle to the strong, and swiftness and strength were titles to all power, all glory, all honour. Full development of the... | |
 | Constance Caroline Woodhill Naden - 1891 - 302 pages
...generation ; and the same thing happened to man — at least in his earlier stages. In primeval days the race was to the swift and the battle to the strong, and swiftness and strength were titles to all power, all glory, all honour. Full development of the... | |
 | Emma Louise Orcutt - 1901 - 316 pages
...that he must yield and stand aside, as the busy, tumultuous, exacting life passed by. He understood the race was to the swift and the battle to the strong. It was this which led him to return to the mountain home in spite of Esther's pleadings and protestations.... | |
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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. 
