 | David Kay - 1846 - 494 pages
...THERESA TIDY'S EIGHTEEN MAXIMS OF NEATNESS AND ORDER. By the late MRS. GRAHAM. " For want of a nail, tho shoe was lost ; For want of a shoe, the horse was lost ; For want of a horse, the rider was lost, tUeing overtaken and slain by the enemy,} And all for want of care about a horse-shoo nail." Twenty-fourth... | |
 | Hickey, William - 1846 - 134 pages
...in order, remembering the 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 daughters ;... | |
 | 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 horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost;' heing overtaken and slain hy the enemy, all for... | |
 | 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 horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost ; heing overtaken and slain hy the enemy — all... | |
 | 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...was lost, (Being overtaken and slain by the enemy,) And all for want of care about a horse-shoe nail." Poor Richard. Twenty-fourth Edition. 18mo. sewed,... | |
 | 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...was lost, (Being overtaken and slain by the enemy,) And all for want of care about a horse-shoe nail." Poor Richard. Twenty-fourth Edition. Ittrao. sewed,... | |
 | 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...was lost, (Being overtaken and slain by the enemy,) And all for want of care about a horse-shoe nail." Poor Richard. Twenty-fourth Edition. Iftmo. sewed,... | |
 | 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...was lost, (Being overtaken and slain by the enemy,) • And all for want of care about a horse-shoe nail." Poor Richard. Twenty-fourth Edition. 18mo. sewed,... | |
 | Theodora Elizabeth Lynch - 1847 - 148 pages
...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...was lost, (Being overtaken and slain by the enemy,) And all for want of care about a horse-shoe nail." Poor Richard. Twenty-fourth Edition. 18mo. sewed,... | |
 | Thomas Salwey - 1847 - 246 pages
...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...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 nail." Poor It'n... | |
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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 horseshoe... 
