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" For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost. "
A Complete Collection of English Proverbs:: Also the Most Celebrated ... - Page 11
1817 - 308 pages
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Facetiae. Musarum Deliciae: Epigrams

English poetry - 1817 - 524 pages
...tread not in one shoe. 498. Patience, time and money accommodate all things. 499. For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost. 500. Weigh justly and sell dcarely. 501 . Little wealth little care. ŁO2. Little journeys and good...
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Musarum Deliciae: Or, the Muses Recreation, Contening Severall ..., Volume 2

Sir John Mennes - 1817 - 568 pages
...tread not in one shoe. 498. Patience, time and money accommodate all things. 499. For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost. 500. Weigh justly and sell dearely. ,501. Little wealth little care. 502. Little journeys and good...
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A compleat collection of English proverbs. To which is added, A collection ...

John Ray - 1818 - 318 pages
...language that all understand not. Where men are well used, they'll frequent there. W HE that waits on another man's trencher, makes many a late dinner....lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost. War is deathis feast. Who preacheth war is the devil's chaplain. War makes thieves, and peace hangs them....
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The art of money getting! To which is added, The way to get a penny; or, The ...

Art - 1820 - 158 pages
...When the tree is fallen, every man goes to it with his hatchet. Or, when a man's down, down with him. For want of a nail, the shoe is lost ; for want of i-. ehoe, the hoise is lost : for want of a horse the rider idlest. He that goes out with often loss,...
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Select Proverbs of All Nations: Illustrated with Notes and Comments. To ...

John Wade - Church - 1824 - 258 pages
...bolt bran, and think it flour. Father, in reclaiming a child, should oat-wit him, and seldom beat him. For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a...horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost. Showing how a small neglect sometimes breeds a great mischicf. \ 90 ECONOMY, MANNERS, AND RICHES. Fine...
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The Traveller's Oracle, Or, Maxims for Locomotion: Containing ..., Volume 2

William Kitchiner - Cab and omnibus service - 1827 - 366 pages
...whether the Bridle, Girths, and Straps, &c. are all good and well fixed, and that he is properly Shod. " For want of a Nail the Shoe is lost, For want of a Shoe the' Horse is lost." Direct that neither the Heel nor Frog be pared more than merely to take off what is ragged and broken....
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The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple

George Herbert - 1841 - 422 pages
...where there is gain. All feet tread not in one shoe. Patience, time, and money accommodate all things. For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a...horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost. Weight justly and sell dearly. Little wealth little care. Little journeys and good cost bring safe...
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The remains of ... George Herbert

George Herbert - 1841 - 394 pages
...where there is gain. All feet tread not in one shoe. Patience, time, and money accommodate all things. For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a...horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost. Weight justly and sell dearly. Little wealth little care. Little journeys and good cost bring safe...
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The Churchman's magazine and Village churchman, ed. by J. Fawcett

1845 - 596 pages
...of himself, nor, being spoken to, is silent. The fox knows much, but more he that taketh him. S"OT want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe...horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost. A man's discontent is his worst evil. Fear nothing but sin. He that labours and thrives spins gold....
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Sharpe's London magazine, a journal of entertainment and ..., Volumes 6-7

Anna Maria Hall - 818 pages
...To lose the hogg (yearling sheep) for the sake of on ounce of tar." For want of a nail the shoe^is lost. For want of a shoe the horse is lost. For want of a horse the rider is lost, Skyld (should) means duty or obligation ; dawve and starve are from the same root, whatever that may...
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