| 1611 - 360 pages
...suddenly upon them. 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...yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I,Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poorman's wisdom is despised, and his words are... | |
| Peter Brett - English literature - 1748 - 260 pages
...Poor 3 tko' ever ft deferring, are generally flighted and made - little of. ECdefiaJlet ix. 14. There was a little City, and few Men within it ; and there came a great King agaiuft it, and beficged it, and built great Bulwarks againft it : Now there was found in it a poor... | |
| Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1796 - 530 pages
...CHRIST, and the Ingratitude of Men to the glorious REDEEMER, represented. * ECCL. ix. 14, 15. There was a little city, and few men within it ; and there came a great king againft is, and befieged it, and built great bulwarks againft it; now, there vias found in it a poor... | |
| Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 308 pages
...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. ix. 14, 15. Then courtiers mean and ungrateful, basely forsook their old master, and paid their... | |
| 1803 - 436 pages
...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 there...it. Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and ne, by his wisdom, delivered the city ; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, wisdom... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...precautions. 13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it [seemed] 14 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 }>S built great bulwarks against it : Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom,... | |
| Ezra Sampson - 1806 - 340 pages
...hands full with toil and vexation of fpirit. i> , io....Wifdom is better than weapons of war. There was a little city, and few men within it ; and there came a great king againft it, and befieged it, and built great bulwarks againil it. Now there was found in it a poor... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, French - 1806 - 406 pages
...by a great king, who built great bulwarks against it, and there wos 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, basely forsook their old master, and paid their... | |
| 1807 - 570 pages
...upon them. 13 «| This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it Ktmed great unto me ; 14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there...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... | |
| Obsolete ideas - 1807 - 226 pages
...day well aware that the poor were not fairly dealt by, as the following lines will prove : " There was a little city, and few " men within it: and there came a " great king againft it, and befieged it, " and built great bulwarks againft it : " Now there was found in it a... | |
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