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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... "
Proverbial Folk-lore - Pagina 61
di Alan Benjamin Cheales - 1875 - 173 pagine
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Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most ..., Volume 6

Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pagine
...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 ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost," being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for...
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The Analectic Magazine, to which is Added, an Appendix of Official ..., Volume 2

1813 - 552 pagine
...more completely verified, than in the omission of properly shoeing the horses at Moscow. " For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the...— being overtaken, and slain by the enemy." The army remained in Smolensko two days, which were one continued scene of confusion, plunder, and conflagration....
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Analectic Magazine, and Naval Chronicle, Volume 2

1813 - 550 pagine
...more completely verified, than in the omission of properly shoeing the horses at Moscow. " For want of a nail, the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe, the...— being overtaken, and slain by the enemy." The army remained in Smolensko two days, which were one continued scene of confusion, plunder and conflagration....
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The Life of Peter the Great, Formerly Emperor of Russia

John Bancks - 1813 - 328 pagine
...more completely verified, than in the omission of properly shoeing the horses at Moscow. " For want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe, the...horse, the rider was lost : being overtaken, and slain hy the enemy." The army remained in Smolensko two days, which were one continued scene of confusion,...
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The Analectic Magazine, Volume 2

1813 - 566 pagine
...completely verified, than in the omission of properly shoeing the horses at Moscow. " For want* of a nail, the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe, the...horse, the rider was lost ; — being overtaken, and alain by the enemy." The army remained in Smolensko two days, which were one continued scene of confusion,...
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The Cheap magazine [ed. by G. Miller.] Vol, Volume 1

George Miller - 1813 - 638 pagine
...adding, " For want of a nail the shoe wağ lost ; for want of a shte the horĞe was lest lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost ;" being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horse-shoe nail. So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 88

1860 - 796 pagine
...carefulness of small matters. "A little neglect," he says, " may breed great mischief. 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 this, which feebly attempts to improve the unadorned baldness of the proverb's downright language,...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 56

1844 - 826 pagine
...disasters, to the caprice of a courtier, or perhaps the accidental delay of a messenger. For want of a nail, the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost ; for want of a horse, the man — and so all was owing to the want of a nail ! Tin; two manners seem incompatible. Never mind....
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ..

Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 610 pagine
...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 ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for...
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The British Prose Writers...: Dr. B. Franklin's essays

1821 - 356 pagine
...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,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horseshoe nail. " III. So mnch for industry, my friends, and...
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