| John B. Skillman - 1830 - 164 pages
...OFFICE: Half past four in the morning — wind salubrious. Justice WYMAN, Present. "There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at its flood leads on to fortune." (We quote from memory, and our memory is sometimes treacherous.) Only seventy ladies were caught on... | |
| Baroness Rosina Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1840 - 312 pages
...twitching her fingers as if for a wager. " Was ever woman in such humour wooed ?" " There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at its flood, leads on to fortune •;** but wo betide the man who does not seize upon the pror> er moment. That very morning both the... | |
| 1843 - 758 pages
...change of their purposes and plans ; of their character and conduct through life. " There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at its flood leads on to fortune ; neglected all is lost" — and lost forever ! This touching sentiment, runs in an unbroken chain,through... | |
| 1843 - 332 pages
...change of their purposes and plans ; of their character and conduct through life. " There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at its flood leads on to fortune ; neglected all is lost" — and lost forever ! This touching sentiment, runs in an unbroken chain,through... | |
| Joseph Story Pitman - 1844 - 142 pages
...and the issue would have been tried at once. I yielded, and the cause was lost. ' There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at its flood, leads on to fortune.' If that tide had been taken by me, the people's Government would have gone into operation, and the... | |
| Ellen Pickering - 1844 - 136 pages
...it. You never sit down to dinner till the fish is cold and the soup taken away. " There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at its flood, leads on to fortune." But you never attempt to take the tide till it has ebbed ; and then you are left floundering in the... | |
| Joseph Story Pitman - 1844 - 142 pages
...and the issue would have been tried at once. I yielded, and the cause was lost. ' There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at its flood, leads on to fortune.' If that tide had been taken by me, the people's Government would have gone into operation, and the... | |
| John Saunders - 1848 - 434 pages
...to his distracted wife : it appeared in the Times again and again, without avail. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at its flood, leads on to fortune ; BO is it also in affairs of mind. Had this period of suffering, during which Agnes endured suspense... | |
| 1872 - 916 pages
...quarter letters are pouring in announcing the intention of the authors to attend." " There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at its flood leads on to fortune," which we conclude must be the motto of these twenty waiting souls, from the last of July to the first... | |
| Edwin Troxell FREEDLY - 1853 - 370 pages
...affairs of men Which,' taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries." It is a wise...foresee the • , golden moment of opportunity, so that we may plant ourselves on the rock of principles which the wisdom of ages has built up, and that... | |
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