 | James Garbett - 1847 - 472 páginas
...EIGHTEEN MAXIMS of NEATNESS and ORDER. To which is prefixed an Introduction by THERESA TJDY. "For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; For want of a shoe, the horse was lost; For want of a horse, the rider was lost, (Being overtaken and slain by the enemy,) And all for want of care about a horse-shoe... | |
 | Thomas Salwey - 1847 - 246 páginas
...EIGHTEEN 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 horse was lost ; For want of a horse, the rider was lost, 1Being overtaken and slain by the enemy,) And all for want of care about a horse-shoe... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1847 - 408 páginas
...EIGHTEEN MAXIMS of NEATNESS and ORDER. To which in prefixed an Introduction by THERESA T<DY. "For want of a nail, the shoe was lost ; For want of a shoe, the horse was lost ; For want of a horse, the rider was lost, (Being overtaken and slain by the enemy,) And all for want of care about a horse-shoe... | |
 | Household prayers - 1847 - 108 páginas
...EIGHTEEN MAXIMS of NEATNESS and ORDER. To which is prefixed an Introduction by THERBSA TIDY. "For want of a nail, the shoe was lost ; For want of a shoe, the horse was lost ; For want of a horse, the rider was lost, (Being overtaken and slain by the enemy,) • And all for want of care about a horse-shoe... | |
 | William Andrus Alcott - 1847 - 510 páginas
...consider what a host of evils sometimes result from a slight neglect. The trite saying — " 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" — will, however, illustrate this part of my subject.... | |
 | William Ewing Du Bois - 1847 - 112 páginas
...make mention of the lost penknife, without which he cannot mend the children's pens ? " For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was crippled ; the messenger was delayed; and the city obliged to surrender." It was a backwoods settlement,... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 534 páginas
...servant, and one that you like, serve yourself. A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1848 - 312 páginas
...smallest matters, because sometimes, ' A little neglect may breed great mischief;' adding, ' For want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horsa was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost ;* being overtaken and slain by the enemy,... | |
 | Ralph Gardiner - 1849 - 280 páginas
...public-houses. Yet only two dozen (loaves) could be had on both sides the Tyne ! (2) " For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, 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-shoenail."... | |
 | 1893 - 642 páginas
...familiar with the proverbial proposition negativing, in a sense, the doctrine de minimii — " For want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; for want of a horse the rider was lost ; for want of arider [carrying despatches implied] the battle was lost ; for want of... | |
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... 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... 
