 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 316 pages
...whose merits are lost in his poverty, than that in the words of the wise man : ' There was alittle city, and few men within it ; and there came a great...the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, wisdom is better than strength ; nevertheless, the poor man's wisdom is despised, and... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 348 pages
...poor man, whose merits are lost in his poverty, than that in the words of the wise man : " There was a little city,, and few men within it; and there came...against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks agdinst it : now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he, by his wisdom, delivered the city ;... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 582 pages
...himself in the hearts of the children of men, as appears by the account of the wise man: "There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came...the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength ; nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 424 pages
...wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me. There was a little city, and a few men within it; and there came a great king against...the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, wisdom is better than strength : nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - Bible - 1811 - 434 pages
...Ixiv. 7. 13. ^f This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me : 14. There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came...and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it : 15. Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city ; .yet no... | |
 | American periodicals - 1812 - 594 pages
...which we find written in 'the 9th chapter of Ecclesiasties, verses 14 and 15, allude to? There -was a little city, and fe-w men within it ; and there...and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it ; Arov, there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered, the city ; yet no man... | |
 | Latin language - 1813 - 292 pages
...full ; im-. to the place whence the rivers come, thither they return again. (nee tamen. 3. There was a little city, and few men within it ; and there came...man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city ; yet n» man remembered that same poor man. (quum pauperis ejus nem» memor esset.) . 4. Musick edifies,... | |
 | James Fishback - Apologetics - 1813 - 326 pages
...that Solomon said "This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and beseiged it, and built great bulwarks against it. Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, English - 1813 - 462 pages
...by a great king, who built great bulwarks against it, and there was found in it a poor wise man, who by his wisdom delivered the city, yet no man remembered that same poor man, chap. ir. 14, 15. Then courtiers mean and ungrateful basely forsook their old master, and paid their... | |
 | 1828 - 498 pages
...SCRIPTURE ILLUSTRATED. THE POOR AND WISE MAN. Eccles, ix. 15. " N..IV there was found in it (the city,) a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city." • WHEN Alexander the Great was about to destroy the city Lampracus, his old master, Anaximenes came... | |
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I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by... 
