 | Robert Hall - 1832 - 592 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 there came a great king * 1 Kings xxii. 8. against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 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...delivered the city ; yet no man remembered that same poor man."t From these and various other causes that might be specified, we see how uncertain are the recompenses... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1833 - 708 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...delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man."t From these and various other causes that might be specified, we see how uncertain are the recompenses... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Christian life - 1842 - 608 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 there came a great hing against it and besieged it and built great bulwarks against it. Now there was found in it a poor... | |
 | Nathan Parker, Henry Ware - Sermons, American - 1835 - 540 pages
...perverted by the influence of wealth or of poverty. There was, says the sacred writer, a little city, and a few men within it ; and there came a great king against...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... | |
 | Education - 1835 - 496 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Reformed Church - 1836 - 458 pages
...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,... | |
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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... 
