 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1842 - 986 sider
...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 there came a great king...bulwarks against it Now there was found in it a poor wite man; and he by his wisdom delivered the city : yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then... | |
 | 1835 - 496 sider
...inflection. " We are not here called upon to give up our rights." " There was 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." — Eccles. ix. 14, 15. Now it is clear that the voice must be suspended on rights in the first of... | |
 | 1835 - 1176 sider
...besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it. 15. Now there was found in it a poor wise 11 i;ui, 16. Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength : nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - 1836 - 458 sider
...bv 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, base- ' a few, followed the multitude, ran,... | |
 | Auguste Louis Philippe Rochat - 1837 - 284 sider
..." 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...wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city." May the Lord grant, that whenever Satan assails us with his temptations, this poor wise man may be... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1837 - 600 sider
...secretly set, and surprised suddenly with unavoidable calamities. IX. 14. There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king...besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it. There were many men in it, yet but one wise man : the number of the other was helpless, if not burdenous... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1838 - 642 sider
...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 there came a great king...wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Vet no man remembered that same poor man," ver. 13 — 15. If the place had been saved by some rich... | |
 | 1838 - 1196 sider
...great unto me : 14 There wax a little city, and few men within it ; and there came a great king 15 thereof 19 ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and...the trumpet sounded long, and waned louder and lo 16 no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, Wisdom if better than strength : nevertheless... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1838 - 1076 sider
...and there came against it a great king, who surrounded it, and raised against it great entrenchments. "Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city ; yet no one noticed that poor man. "Then said I, wisdom is bolter than strength," etc. Eccl. c. 9. v. 13 —... | |
 | George Godwin - 1838 - 368 sider
...quality has as fatal an effect upon men's reputations as poverty : for as it was said, "the poor man by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man ; " so here we find the modest man built the city, and the modest man's skill was unknown.' At the... | |
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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... 
