| Female excellence - 1838 - 240 páginas
...impossible to say how widely the evil may extend. This is the spirit of a popular saying ; " For want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the...lost ; for want of a horse the rider was lost, being taken by his enemies ; and all for want of attention to a horse-shoe nail." Let those, then, who, with... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1839 - 96 páginas
...smallest matters, beeause sometimes 'A little negleet may breed great misehief ;* adding, ' For want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost ;' being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for... | |
| Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 páginas
...great mischief ; for want of a nail the shoe was lost, and for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; and all for want of a little care about a horse- shoe nail. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, " keep his... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 624 páginas
...mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for icant of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. " III. So much for industry, my friends, and... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 342 páginas
...matters, because, sometimes. ' A little neglect may breed great mis4hief ; ' adding, ' For want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost ;' being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for... | |
| 1841 - 300 páginas
...great mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe, tho horse was lost ; and for want of a horse, the rider was lost," being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. III. ' So much for industry, my friends, and... | |
| Esther Copley, afterwards COPLEY HEWLETT (Esther) - 1841 - 248 páginas
...llichard,' A stitch in time saves nine,'—and, ' A little neglect may breed a great mischief—for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost; being overtaken and •n by an enemy, all for want... | |
| John BROADHURST - 1842 - 330 páginas
...MAXIMS OF NEATNESS AND ORDER. To which is prefixed an Introduction. By THERESA TIDY. " For want of a nail, the shoe was lost ; For want of a shoe, the...want of care about a horse-shoe nail." POOR RICHARD. The Twenty-third Edition. 18mo. price 9d. By the same AuUwr, 2. A SELECTION OF FABLES from F LORI AN... | |
| William Newnham - 1842 - 682 páginas
...NEATNE8S AND ORDER. To which is prefixed an Introduction. By THERESA TIDY. " For want of a nail, the shoo was lost; For want of a shoe, the horse was lost ; For want of a horse, the rider was lost, I Being overtaken and slain by the enemy,) And all for want of care about a horse-shoe nail." POOR... | |
| 1842 - 194 páginas
...mischief;' adding, 'For want of a nail the , shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost :' being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horse-shoe nail. " So much for industry, my friends, and attention to... | |
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