 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...  Estremadura, Leon, Gallicia, the Asturias, the Castiles (old and new), the ... - Page 919by Richard Ford - 1855Full view - About this book
 | Jacques Saurin - 1800
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802
...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 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,... | |
 | 1803
...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 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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1803
...besieged it, and built great bulwarks against 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 is better than strength ; nevertheless, the poor man's wisdom is despised,... | |
 | Sacred hours - History - 1804
...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 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 Addison - 1804
...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 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,... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Gabriel Dumont, Robert Robinson, Henry Hunter, Joseph Sutcliffe - 1806
...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... | |
 | 1807
...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 that -:.iii poor man. a 1§ Then 1G Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength : nevertheless, the poor... | |
 | Symon Patrick (Bp. of Ely), William Lowth, Richard Arnald, Daniel Whitby - Bible - 1809
...take it speedily, or to have it surrendered into his hands ; Ver. 1 5. Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city ; yet no man remembered that same poor man.] When by a strange providence of God, there unexpectedly appeared a wise man, but he so poor that... | |
 | 1809 - 959 pages
...king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it : 15 Now there was found in it a hey rcmeinbereth that same poor man. 16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength : nevertheless the... | |
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