 | Household prayers - 1847 - 108 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Margaret Fraser Tytler - 1847 - 388 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1848 - 312 Seiten
...virtuous.' And farther, ' If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.' And again, he adviseth to circumspection and care,...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,... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 534 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Harvey Prindle Peet - 1849 - 438 Seiten
...forming a peculiar tense of the verb (Part HI. p. 156.) Mr. is about to publish a book. " 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, overtaken and killed by the enemy." All for want of a nail in time. Horses are very uneasy and restless... | |
 | 430 Seiten
...the man who was to blame for the well-known catastrophe, thus popularly related — -" 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 man was lost." Gallio was a Don't Care, of whom the Scriptures say, " He cared for none of these things."... | |
 | Ralph Gardiner - 1849 - 280 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1893 - 642 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1852 - 564 Seiten
...habitually unfaithful to his appointments. Franklin. A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the...horse, the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by an enemy, — all for want of care about a horse-shoe nail. 636. NEIGHBORS, NEIGHBORLY. Good fences... | |
 | 1852 - 596 Seiten
...was to blame for the well-known catastrophe, thus popularly related: " For want of a nail the shoo was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and for a want of a horse the man was lost." Oallio was a Don't Care, of whom the Scriptures say, " He cared... | |
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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;" being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for the want of a little care about a horseshoe nail! 
