 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
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - History - 1842
...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 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,... | |
 | Nathan Parker, Henry Ware - Religion - 1835 - 402 pages
...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,... | |
 | Education - 1835
...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." — Eccles. ix. 14, 15. Now it is clear that the voice must be suspended on rights in the first... | |
 | 1835 - 1108 pages
...besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it. 15. Now there was found in it a poor wise 11 i;ui, man. 16. Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength : nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised,... | |
| Thomas Chevalier - Bibles - 1836 - 1174 pages
...king against it, and begged it, and built great bulwarks agains; it. 15 Xo«r there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city ; yet no man remembered that *ame poor man. 16 Then said I, Wisdom is belter u than BC 977. ac.S.15. lift* masters the tongue ic.10.19.... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - 1836
...bv a great king, who built great bulwarks against it, and there was found in it a poor wise man, who the ghost. AnJ, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from man," chap. ix. 14, 15. Then courtiers, mean and ungrateful, base- ' a few, followed the multitude,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837
...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,... | |
 | George Godwin, John Britton - 1838
...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 Biblical repositor (and quarterly observer) [afterw.] The American ...](http://bks4.books.google.co.uk/books?id=o_IDAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "The Biblical repositor (and quarterly observer) [afterw.] The American ...") | Edward Robinson - 1838
...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 —... | |
 | 1838
...king 15 against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it : Now there was found in it a e voice of 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... | |
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