...there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and beseiged it, and built great bulwarks against it. Now there...wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Then, said I, wisdom is better than strength. Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner...

...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. ir. 14, 15. Then courtiers mean and ungrateful basely forsook their old master, and paid their...

...SCRIPTURE ILLUSTRATED. THE POOR AND WISE MAN. Eccles, ix. 15. " N..IV there was found in it (the city,) a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city." • WHEN Alexander the Great was about to destroy the city Lampracus, his old master, Anaximenes came...

...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...the city. Yet no man remembered that same poor man," ver. 13 — 15. If the place had been saved by some rich citizen, the performance would have been applauded...

...and it seemed great unto me : 14 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: 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city ; yet no man...

...to it, erected bulwarks against it, and entrenched it round : now there was found within the walls a poor wise man and he by his wisdom delivered the city ; but none remembered the same poor man. THIS parable describes the corrupt and malevolent nature of...

...Ecclesiastes, and a verse of Proverbs : — " There was a little city, and few men within it ; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built...city ; yet no man remembered that same poor man." (Eccles. ix. t4, 15.) " The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding...

...creature is man ! When we read, " There was a little city, and few men •within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built...his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered the same poor man," Eccles. ht. 14, 15 ; — w'e are disgusted at the ingratitude of the citizens ;...

...that in the words of the wise man : ' There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built...wisdom is better than strength; nevertheless, the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.' ' If we regard poverty and wealth, asjthey...

...mankind. " There was," says an inspired writer, "a little city, and few men in it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built...city, yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then I saw that wisdom is better than strength." A striking verification of the foregoing sentiment, is...