 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...Enjoy life. IS Thi > wisdom have I seon also under the sun, and it strmed great unto me : 14 There wax on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire : and the s 15 against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it : Now there was found in it a poor... | |
 | George Godwin - 1838 - 368 pages
...quality has as fatal an effect upon men's reputations as poverty : for as it was said, "the poor man by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man ; " so here we find the modest man built the city, and the modest man's skill was unknown.' At the... | |
 | Theology - 1838 - 548 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 hy his wisdom delivered the city ; yet no one noticed that poor man. "Then said I, wisdom is better... | |
 | 1839 - 444 pages
...following verses :— " 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...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... | |
 | John Pring - 1839 - 184 pages
...world, as being invisible, to venture to address it any how. But we read in Scripture how " there was a little city and few men within it : and there came...wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city." (Eccles. ix. 14, 15.) Only think, my dear brother ; what a rich man it would make him, if divine Wisdom... | |
 | Bible - 1839 - 1060 pages
...upon them. 13 f This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me : 14 There was e water. Sir J. Chardin. The Prophet foresees and...those that should go out in the Gospel times to sow 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom 8. Let thy garments be always white... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...the rich. Solomon instances a case that may have often occurred, Eccles. ix. 14 — 16. " 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... | |
 | Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee - Boston (Mass.) - 1839 - 142 pages
...seeds of wisdom, which, in time, will spring up and bring forth fair fruit. The Bible says, "There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it. Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and... | |
 | 1840 - 870 pages
...it ; and there camea great king against it, and besieged it, and bum great bulwarks against it : 15 , and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided....And the children of Israel went into the midst of nan. 16 Then said I, Wisdom it better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom '\ despised,... | |
 | Home missions - 1840 - 902 pages
...sheep-cote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel. Eccl. 9 : 15, 16— There was a little city, and few men within it, and there came...against it and besieged it, and built great bulwarks agains* it. Now there wat found in kn poor wi*e man, and he by his wisdom с vered the city. VII. Is... | |
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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... 
