| D.V. Rangarajan - 2004 - 172 lehte
...Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time - Victor Hugo. 4. 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... | |
| Ann-Marie MacDonald - 2009 - 848 lehte
...Boston tones, but she knows Mr. March said it. Mr. March explaining the domino effect: For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe, the horse was lost. . . . Walter Cronkite brought her back. "... live, from the moon." On screen, the Eagle landed,... | |
| Chris McCully - 2004 - 240 lehte
...observances always remind me of the blacksmith's nail. Do you know that rhyme? 'For want of a nail, the horse was lost. For want of a horse, the rider was lost. For want of a rider, the battle was lost. For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost...' Lives go on,... | |
| Orison Swett Marden - 2005 - 465 lehte
...not cease its action until the whipping-post and bodily servitude are abolished forever. "For want of a nail the shoe was lost, For want of a shoe the horse...For want of a horse the rider was lost, and all," says Poor Richard, " for want of a horseshoe nail." A single remark dropped by an unknown person in... | |
| Robert Fisher - 2005 - 268 lehte
...association or sequence of ideas running through popular traditional stories and poems such as: 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, For want of a rider the battle was lost, And all for the want of a horse shoe nail. As children grow... | |
| Everett C. Dolman - 2005 - 254 lehte
...numerous persons, including Benjamin Franklin and Shakespeare, but whose origins are obscure: '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. For want of a rider the battle was lost. For want of a battle the kingdom was lost, For want of a nail... | |
| Carol Harlow - 2005 - 212 lehte
...Not So Golden Anniversary" (1983) 46 Modern Law Review 147. 4 FACING THE CONSEQUENCES "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, For want of the rider, the battle was lost, For want of the battle, the kingdom was lost And all for... | |
| Steve Wohlberg - 2004 - 449 lehte
...things you won't learn at the movies. 58 Chapter 8 Paul s Point: Antichrist Comes First 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; for want of the rider, the battle was lost. —Benjamin Franklin (17064790) What the majority think... | |
| Timothy Rasinski, Lorraine Griffith - 2005 - 112 lehte
...your neighbors, if your own windows are glass. R4: A little neglect may breed mischief; 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; for want of the rider the battle was lost. R5: If you know the value of money, go and try to borrow... | |
| Robert Chambers - 2012 - 288 lehte
...the spirit of the assessment. 26 An 'olde' English version of the butterfly effect runs: 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. For want of a rider the battle was lost For loss of the battle the kingdom was lost. A 21st century... | |
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