 | 1611 - 360 pages
...falleth 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 314 pages
...description of 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...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,... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...his poverty ,than that in the words of the wise man. ' There was a little city, and few men within: and there came a great king against it: and besieged...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,... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all. There was a little city, and few men within it: and...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...description of 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...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,... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...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, by some wise counsel or »tratagem, delivered the city ; yet no man remembered that 16 same poor man.... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...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 that -:.iii poor man. a 1§ Then 1G Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it : 15 the kin K ; yet no man rcmeinbereth that same poor man. 16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength : nevertheless... | |
 | Bible - 1809 - 556 pages
...his batteries, doubted not to 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 314 pages
...description of a popr 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...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,... | |
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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... 
