 | Robert Sanderson - 1854 - 458 pages
...enough to be despised. And 12' though wisdom be better than strength, yet Solomon tells us, Eccl. U. i6. the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. I am small and of no reputation, saith David. And Ps. cxix. our Saviour's caveat in the Gospel is especially... | |
 | Samuel Sharpe - 1858 - 324 pages
...strong, but time and chance happeneth to them all" (ix, 11). Even wisdom seems of little value when the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard (ix, 16). Nevertheless, actions are followed by their natural consequences, and " Whoso breaketh a... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1859 - 618 pages
...remembered that same poor man. Then said I, wisdom is belter than strength : nevertheless (or altho') the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. The passage is as follows ; (viz.') " I shall only pro" pose the two following questions : " First,... | |
 | James Brown (of Selkirk) - 1862 - 172 pages
...ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts 1 2— JAMES ii. 2, 3, 4. The poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. — ECCLES. ix. 16. When a rich man speaketh, every man holdeth his tongue,3 and look, what he saith,... | |
 | James BROWN (of Selkirk.), James Brown Selkirk - 1862 - 174 pages
...ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? 2 — JAMES ii. 2, 3, 4. The poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. — ECCLBS. ix. 16. When a rich man speaketh, every man holdeth his tongue,3 and look, what he saith,... | |
 | Charles Wordsworth - 1864 - 392 pages
...great man down, you mark, his favorite* flies. Again, Solomon testifies, in Ecclesiastes ix. 1 6 : — The poor man's wisdom is despised and his words are not heard. * Compare the speech of the Duke of Buckingham, quoted above, p. 219, and of Achilles, in Troilus and... | |
 | 1865 - 842 pages
...Preacher, it seems, long ago saw the mischief of such a rule ; for it is one of those cases in which " the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard." Moreover, the Society is Christian, and ought to be managed by Christian men. The most frightful portion... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 766 pages
...Ascalonite Fled from his lion ramp; old warriors turned Their plated backs under his heel; Or, grovelling, soiled their crested helmets in the dust." Samson's,...getting Syracuse into his possession. Among other marvellous means which the old philosopher is said to have employed, to avert this catastrophe, was... | |
 | 1867 - 336 pages
...mouths. — A rich man gets credit for more knowledge than he has, and his word has great weight : ' the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard' (Eccles. ix. 16). Ver. 14. ' Devour ; ' not, ' feed them,' ' act as then- shepherd.' In the morning... | |
 | Alfred John Morris - 1869 - 410 pages
...than many follies, and not a few sins. The freedom of the world is generally presented in a gold box. "The poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard." How can a man have anything to say who has nothing to give ? There was certainly a feeling in the Jews... | |
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There was a little city (says he), 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 his wisdom delivered the city ; yet no man... 
