 | James Fishback - 1813 - 326 ページ
...this truth 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 - 1813 - 462 ページ
...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... | |
 | Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 ページ
...: so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them. 14 There teas 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 man... | |
 | 1828 - 500 ページ
...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 616 ページ
...ix. 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...the city. Yet no man remembered that same poor man," ver. 13 — 15. If the place had been saved by some rich citizen, the performance would have been applauded... | |
 | 1815 - 586 ページ
...suddenly upon them. 13 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...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 336 ページ
...to it, erected bulwarks against it, and entrenched it round : now there was found within the walls a poor wise man and he by his wisdom delivered the city ; but none remembered the same poor man. THIS parable describes the corrupt and malevolent nature of... | |
 | William NAPPER - 1816 - 122 ページ
...the consideration of a short history or parable from Ecclesiastes, and a verse of Proverbs : — " There was a little city, and few men within it ; and...city ; yet no man remembered that same poor man." (Eccles. ix. t4, 15.) " The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding... | |
 | 1818 - 510 ページ
...two years longer in prison. Alas, what an ungrateful and selfish creature is man ! When we read, " There was a little city, and few men •within it;...his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered the same poor man," Eccles. ht. 14, 15 ; — w'e are disgusted at the ingratitude of the citizens ;... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 310 ページ
...description of a 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...man. Then said I, wisdom is better than strength; nevertheless, the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.' ' If we regard poverty... | |
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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... 
