| David James Burrell - 1892 - 350 páginas
...To-day is the day of salvation." Alas if, heaven being within our very grasp, we lose it ! " There is a tide in the affairs of man Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Omitted, all the voyage of our life Is bound in shallows and in miseries." II. Observe... | |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin - 1894 - 884 páginas
...his duty faithfully and well. General Fairchild was a fortunate man. It has been said that " there is a tide in the affairs of man, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune." If he had remained in the army, as he would have preferred, he could not have rendered... | |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin - 1897 - 176 páginas
...his duty faithfully and well. General Fairchild was a fortunate man. It has been said that " there is a tide in the affairs of man, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. ' ' If he had remained in the army, as he would have preferred, he could not have rendered... | |
| 1898 - 432 páginas
...human necessity? The great poet-dramatist Shakespeare voiced the same thought when he said: "There is a tide in the affairs of man, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune." From circumference to center of that thought trace all ebbs flows, Hood, and tide to their... | |
| Benjamin Leopold Farjeon - 1900 - 362 páginas
...promised to make the loving father a wealthy man. It was but a variation of the saying that ' there is a tide in the affairs of man which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.' A variation with a difference, for there are many tides in each man's affairs, and it... | |
| Mrs. Henry Wood - 1901 - 504 páginas
...hill-mounting, This downward path is easy, but there's no turning back." Shakespeare tells us that there is a tide in the affairs of man, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune : omitted, all the voyage of the after life is spent in shoals and miseries. That will apply... | |
| Henry Woldmar Ruoff - 1902 - 712 páginas
...he will, he shall have nay." If you once let your opportunity go, you may never have another. "There is a tide in the affairs of man, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune : Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a... | |
| 1907 - 28 páginas
...is not less busily applying when it seems to be the most released from application. * * * « There's a tide in the affairs of man which taken at the flood leads on to for* tune, omitted all the voyage of their life, is bound in shallows and in miserieson such a sea... | |
| John Conrad Hemmeter - 1908 - 316 páginas
...each, conditional upon the raising of an additional $1000 were Professors Hemmeter and Winslow. "There is a tide in the affairs of man, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries." CAT. II.ti.lJ... | |
| 1909 - 624 páginas
...was evening. Back in the basement of our mansion, Eve became practical. Solemnly she quoted : " There is a tide in the affairs of man Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune." " This is the tide in our affairs, and we will take it at the flood," she continued, with... | |
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