Parallel Passages

A correspondent in Vol. i., p. 330, quoted some parallels to a passage in Shakspeare's *Julius Cæsar*. Will you allow me to add another, I think even more striking than those he cited. The full passage in Shakspeare is, "There is a tide in the affairs of man, Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their lives Is bound in shallows and in miseries." In Bacon's *Advancement of Learning*, book 2, occurs the following:— "In the third place, I set down reputation because of the peremptory tides and currents it hath, which, if they be not taken in due time, are seldo…