 | 1828 - 498 pages
...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 - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 616 pages
...afterwards : " This wisdom have I seen under the sun : and it seemed great unto me. There was a little ton ver. 13 — 15. If the place had been saved by some rich citizen, the performance would have been applauded... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...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 there came a great...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 pages
...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 - Bible - 1816 - 122 pages
...of a short history or parable from Ecclesiastes, and a verse of Proverbs : — " There was a little city, and few men within it ; and there came a great...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 pages
...in prison. Alas, what an ungrateful and selfish creature is man ! When we read, " There was a little city, and few men •within it; and there came a great...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 ;... | |
 | 610 pages
...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...city, yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then I saw that wisdom is better than strength." A striking verification of the foregoing sentiment, is... | |
 | Bible - 1819 - 948 pages
...If This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me : 14 There was a little gainst it, and besieged it, and built great Bulwarks against it : 515 15 Now there was found in it... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1821 - 542 pages
...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... | |
 | George Holden - Bible - 1822 - 316 pages
...[seemed] great unto me. To give one instance of the value of Wisdom, 14 [there was] a little city, and a few men within it; and there came a great king against...and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against 15 it. Now there Avas found in it a poor wise man, and he, by his wisdom, delivered the city ; yet,... | |
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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... 
