 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 pages
...prudent precautions. 13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it [seemed] 14 great unto me : [There was] a little city, and few men within it ;...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,... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 474 pages
...precautions. 1 3 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and if [seemed]; !4 great unto me : t'l'here was] a little city, and few men within it ; and there...came a great king against it, and besieged it, and 15 built great bulwarks against it : Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom,... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1806 - 340 pages
...both the hands full with toil and vexation of fpirit. i> , io....Wifdom is better than weapons of war. There was a little city, and few men within it ; and there came a great king againft it, and befieged it, and built great bulwarks againil it. Now there was found in it a poor... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1806 - 406 pages
...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 their... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...suddenly upon them. 13 «| This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it Ktmed great unto me ; 14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and...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... | |
 | Obsolete ideas - 1807 - 226 pages
...in his day well aware that the poor were not fairly dealt by, as the following lines will prove : " There was a little city, and few " men within it: and there came a " great king againft it, and befieged it, " and built great bulwarks againft it : " Now there was found in it a... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...suddenly with unavoidable calamities. IX. 14 There was a little city, and few men within it ; and then came a great king against it, and 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:... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...suddenly upon them. 13 If This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me : 14 K : 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city ; yet no man... | |
 | 1809 - 556 pages
...wealth and riches. And this single observation shows that I have reason for it. See Annot. [k] Ver. 14. There was a little city, and few men within it; and...there came a great king against it, and besieged it, ami built great bulwarks against it :] There was a city of small circuit, ill fortified, and manned... | |
 | William Huntington - 1809 - 568 pages
...fortified himfclf in the hearts of the children of men, as appears by the account of the wife man : " There was a little city, and few' men within it ; and there came a great king againft it, and befieged it, and built great bulwarks againft it. Now there was found iii /it a poor... | |
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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... 
