 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 pages
...smallest matters, hecause sometimes, " A little neglect may hreed great mischief ;" adding, " For want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the...lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost ; heing overtaken and slain hy the enemy — all for want of care ahout a horse-shoe nail." So much... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 pages
...smallest matters, hecause sometimes 'A little neglect may hreed great mischief ;' adding, 'Fir want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the...lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost;' heing overtaken and slain hy the enemy, all for want of care ahout a horse-shoe nail. "So much for... | |
 | Hickey, William - 1846 - 134 pages
...old story, " that for want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of .•i shoe the horse was lost, for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy!" Be clean in your persons, ye women especially ; tidily dressed like farmers' wives and... | |
 | William Andrus Alcott - 1847 - 510 pages
...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...lost ; and for want of a horse, the rider was lost" — will, however, illustrate this part of my subject. Had the single nail which was omitted — the... | |
 | Margaret Fraser Tytler - 1847 - 388 pages
...EIGHTEEN MAXIMS of NEATNESS and ORDER. To which is prefixed an Introduction by THERESA TIDK. " 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Gray - 1847 - 540 pages
...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, IBeing overtaken and slain by the enemy,) And all for... | |
 | William Ewing Du Bois - 1847 - 112 pages
...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,... | |
 | James Garbett - 1847 - 472 pages
...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... | |
 | Household prayers - 1847 - 108 pages
...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... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1847 - 408 pages
...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... | |
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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 ; 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... 
