 | Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 600 pages
...with unavoidable calamities. IX. 14. 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. 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
...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...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... | |
 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...great unto me : 14 There wax a little city, and few men within it ; and there came a great king 15 thereof 19 ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and...the trumpet sounded long, and waned louder and lo 16 no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, Wisdom if better than strength : nevertheless... | |
 | 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 —... | |
 | 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
...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...Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard." " Well," said he, after he had read it, " how... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...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...wisdom is better than strength, nevertheless, the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard." There were diversities of ranks then, as well... | |
 | John Pring - 1839 - 184 pages
...how. But we read in Scripture how " there was a little city and few men within it : and there came a great king against it, and besieged it ; and built...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... | |
 | Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee - Boston (Mass.) - 1839 - 142 pages
...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...wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. " Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength; the words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the... | |
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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... 
