 | Christian life - 1842 - 608 pages
...of the matter. "This wisdom also have I seen under the sun, and it seemed great unto me. There was a little city and few men within it: and there came a great hing against it and besieged it and built great bulwarks against it. Now there was found in it a poor... | |
 | Nathan Parker, Henry Ware - Sermons, American - 1835 - 540 pages
...perverted by the influence of wealth or of poverty. There was, says the sacred writer, 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... | |
 | Education - 1835 - 496 pages
...inflection. " We are not here called upon to give up our rights." " There was a little city, and few men in it ; and there came a great king against it, and besieged...city; yet no man 'remembered that same poor man." — Eccles. ix. 14, 15. Now it is clear that the voice must be suspended on rights in the first of... | |
 | 1835 - 1176 pages
...besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it. 15. Now there was found in it a poor wise 11 i;ui, 16. Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength : nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - Reformed Church - 1836 - 458 pages
...bv 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. ix. 14, 15. Then courtiers, mean and ungrateful, base- ' a few, followed the multitude, ran,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 478 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...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... | |
 | Auguste Louis Philippe Rochat - Hezekiah, king of Judah - 1837 - 284 pages
...penned for him : " 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...wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city." May the Lord grant, that whenever Satan assails us with his temptations, this poor wise man may be... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 600 pages
...which God hath secretly set, and surprised suddenly with unavoidable calamities. IX. 14. There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came...besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it. There were many men in it, yet but one wise man : the number of the other was helpless, if not burdenous... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1838 - 642 pages
...1—3. And afterwards : " This wisdom have I seen under the sun ; and it seemed great unto me, There was a little city, and few men within it ; and there came...wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Vet no man remembered that same poor man," ver. 13 — 15. If the place had been saved by some rich... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1838 - 1076 pages
...and there came against it a great king, who surrounded it, and raised against it great entrenchments. "Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city ; yet no one noticed that poor man. "Then said I, wisdom is bolter than strength," etc. Eccl. c. 9. v. 13 —... | |
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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... 
