 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...suddenly upon them. If 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...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... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1833 - 698 pages
...rewarded when they are not recommended by their union with the ornamental appendages of rank or fortune. " There was a little city, and few men within it ; and...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 his wisdom delivered... | |
 | 1842 - 608 pages
...city and few men within it: and there came a great hing against it and besieged it and built great bulwarks against it. Now there was found in it a poor...the city : yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, wisdom is better than strength : nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1842 - 986 pages
...his account of the matter. "This wisdom also have I seen under the sun, and it seemed great unto me. There was a little city and few men within it: and...a great king against it and besieged it and built great bulwarks against it Now there was found in it a poor wite man; and he by his wisdom delivered... | |
 | 1835 - 496 pages
...city, and few men in 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...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... | |
 | Nathan Parker, Henry Ware - 1835 - 540 pages
...and a 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...the city ; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then, said I, wisdom is better than strength ; nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1837 - 600 pages
...in the time which God hath secretly set, and surprised suddenly with unavoidable calamities. IX. 14. There was a little city, and few men within it; and...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... | |
 | Auguste Louis Philippe Rochat - 1837 - 284 pages
...expressly penned for him : " 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...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 his wisdom delivered... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 pages
...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...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 his wisdom, delivered... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1838 - 642 pages
...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...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 his wisdom delivered... | |
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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... 
