 | Chapbooks - 1796 - 34 pages
...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,"...overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. Ill, * So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 72 pages
...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 the want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. " So much for industry, my friends, and attention... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1804 - 78 pages
...may breed great mischief;" adding, "For want of nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the hors was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for wan of care about a hors<:•shoe nail. So much f< industry, my friends, and attention to one's o»... | |
 | Gleaner - 1805 - 426 pages
...neglect mav 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...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 attention to one's... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...neglect may breed 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,"...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 attention to ones... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...neglect may breed great mischief; tor 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,"...overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. '111. So much for industry, my friends, and attention to ones... | |
 | Rev. John Thornton - Ethics - 1811 - 106 pages
...things, and remember " That 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." 132. Good thoughts are apt to vanish away if they be not speedily embodied in good actions. 133. Travellers... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...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,"...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 attention to one's... | |
 | James Plumptre - English drama - 1812 - 424 pages
...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 hy the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horseshoe-nail. III. So much for industry, my... | |
 | George Miller - 1813 - 638 pages
...mischief; adding, " For want of a nail the shoe wa» lost ; for want of a shte the hor«e was lest lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...attention to one's own business ; but to these we mott add fiugality, if we would make our industry more certainly i uccessful. A man, may, if lie knows... | |
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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... 
