| Carlton BRUCE (pseud. [i.e. George Mogridge.]) - Children - 1837 - 300 pages
...little things as well as great ; let the minutest thing you do be done well. If I were a cobbler, I 'd make it my pride The best of all cobblers to be ; And if I were a tinker, no tinker beside Should mend an old kettle like me. Whether you are short or tall,... | |
| Children's periodicals - 1837 - 400 pages
...such a disposition, in such a situation, he would have done as he said. Now, my boys, be determined to the like : whether you may be high or low, rich or...; and we very often find that trifling things are sources of much discomfort when they are improperly performed. If a candle be improperly lighted, the... | |
| Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1836 - 690 pages
...puzzled in casting up an account of a few pounds ! Now, attend to this, my boys, and let your figures be what they ought to be, not only intelligible to yourselves,...; and we very often find that trifling things are sources of much discomfort when they are improperly performed. If a candle is improperly lighted, the... | |
| Herbert Baxter Adams, Richard Waterman - Industrialization - 1900 - 364 pages
...mottoes : "Speak gently—it is better far to rule by love than fear." " If a cobbler by trade, I'll make it my pride The best of all cobblers to be, And if only a tinker, no tinker on earth Shall mend an old kettle like me." " Teach us to be kind before we... | |
| William Howe Tolman - Industrial relations - 1900 - 114 pages
...Untroubled." " Speak gently—it is better far to rule by love than fear." " If a cobbler by trade, I'll make it my pride The best of all cobblers to be, And if only a tinker, no tinker on earth Shall mend an old kettle like me." " Teach us to be kind before we... | |
| Education - 1903 - 162 pages
...undertake, always do your best. I am very fond of quoting these lines, I think, of George Canning — " ' If a cobbler by trade, I will make it my pride The best of all cobblers to be ; And if I 'ma tinker, no tinker beside Shall mend an old kettle like me.' " I do not believe much in genius... | |
| Walter George Stephan - Drawing instruments - 1908 - 130 pages
...they are of good quality and are accurate ? This is good sentiment : • " If a cobbler by trade, I'll make it my pride, The best of all cobblers to be. And if only a tinker, no tinker on earth Shall mend an old kettle like me." With proper care a set of good... | |
| Jesse Collings, Sir John Little Green - Agricultural laborers - 1920 - 368 pages
...might," or, as it is quaintly expressed in the wellknown doggerel lines : " If a cobbler by trade, I'll make it my pride, The best of all cobblers to be ; And if only a tinker, no tinker on earth Shall mend an old kettle like me." More important than all, I have... | |
| 1900 - 446 pages
...results, the prizes to be distributed about Christmas time. BRIARCLIFF FARMS " If a cobler by trade, I'll make it my pride The best of all cobblers to be ; And if only a tinker, no tinker on earth Shall mend an old kettle like me." The following prizes will be awarded... | |
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