 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: 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered...  Select British Classics - Page 2971803Full view - About this book
 | Education - 1835 - 496 pages
...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,... | |
 | Auguste Louis Philippe Rochat - Hezekiah, king of Judah - 1837 - 284 pages
...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...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
...surprised suddenly 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
...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 king against it, and besieged...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... | |
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