 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...  The baptist Magazine - Page 4521818Full view - About this book
 | 1828 - 498 lehte
...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 lehte
...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...his wisdom delivered 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... | |
 | 1815 - 614 lehte
...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 - 332 lehte
...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 Russel - 1816 - 122 lehte
...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...wisdom delivered the 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... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 310 lehte
...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...wisdom, delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, wisdom is better than strength; nevertheless, the poor man's wisdom... | |
 | 610 lehte
...extensively useful to mankind. " There was," says an inspired writer, "a little city, and few men in it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged...his wisdom delivered the city, yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then I saw that wisdom is better than strength." A striking verification of the... | |
 | 1819 - 948 lehte
...suddenly upon them 13 If This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me : 14 5 gainst it, and besieged it, and built great Bulwarks against it : 515 15 Now there was found in it... | |
 | 1821 - 542 lehte
...ag,\i;i<.tn, and should direct besieged it, and bnilt great bulwarks against it: 15 .w us in the ma- there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisnagement of dom delivered the city ; yet no man remembered that same atiairs. poor wan. 16 Then... | |
 | W. JILLARD HORT - 1822 - 156 lehte
...description of the poor man whose merit is lost in his poverty, than in the words of the wise man: " There was a little city, and few " men within it;...there came a great king against " it, and besieged it. Now there was found iu it a " poor wise man; and he, by his wisdom delivered " the city; yet no man... | |
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