 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 Seiten
...benevolent, when the gifts we bestow do not cost us a single privation ? — Degerando. SELF-DEPENDENCE. — If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself. — Franklin. SELF-DISCIPLINE. — That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions,... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 Seiten
...world, men are saved, not by f'aith, but by the want of it;" but a man's own care is profitable; for, „if you would have a faithful servant, and one that...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," being... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1854 - 444 Seiten
...serpent's egg will produce a serpent. A slight cold may terminate in consumption and death. 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. How many destructive fires occur annually through carelessness... | |
 | Word-making primer - 1854 - 82 Seiten
...free horse to death. Fain would the cat fish eat, 1 But she is loth to wet her feet. j 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. Frost and fraud both end in foul. Good words are good,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1855 - 348 Seiten
...will have no rivals. Against diseases, know the strongest fence is the defensive virtue, abstinence. If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself. 3. A mob 'sa monster ; with heads enough, but no brains. There is nothing humbler" than ambition when... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 320 Seiten
...will have no rivals. Against diseases, know the strongest fence is the defensive virtue, abstinence. If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself. 3. A mob 'sa monster ; with heads enough, but no brains. There is nothing humbler1' than ambition when... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 Seiten
...and riches to the careful, as well as puwer to the bold, and heaven to the 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, even in the smallest matters, because sometimes,... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 456 Seiten
...world, men are saved, not by faith, but by the want of it ; ' but a man's own care is profitable, for 'If you would have a faithful servant, and one that...may breed great mischief : for want of a nail the shoo was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,'... | |
 | 1856 - 622 Seiten
...threepence." M. Say's story is one of the many examples of the truth of the old proverb : "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 was lost.' TEE CHILDHEN'THAT WENT WEST. About three weeks ago a company... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2003 - 588 Seiten
...studious, and riches to the careful, as well ^s power to the bold, and Heaven to the 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, even in the smallest matters, because sometimes... | |
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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... 
