 | Levi Carroll Judson - 1848 - 364 pages
...that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. Judging from the past, I wish to know what there has been in the...British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen are pleased to solace themselves and the house ? Is it that insidious... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it. I bare but one lamp, by which my feet ire guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know...British ministry for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves, and the house ? Is it that... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 320 pages
...spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth ; to know the worst, and to provide for it. 25 I have but one lamp, by which my feet are guided ;...way of judging of the future but by the past. And, j&dging by trie past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry, for... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1849 - 296 pages
...established influences. In the spirit of our great revolutionary orator, he seemed ever ready to exclaim, " I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and...no way of judging of the future but by the past:" thus Patrick Henry opened the celebrated speech in which he so eloquently advocated resistance to Great... | |
 | 1849 - 820 pages
...established influences. In the spirit of our great revolutionary orator, he seemed ever ready to exclaim, " I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience ; and know of no way of >udging of the future but by the past :" thus Patrick opened the celebrated... | |
 | Joshua Leavitt - 1850 - 324 pages
...spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth — to know the worst, and to provide for it. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way to judge of the future but by the past. And, judging by the past, I wish to know what there... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1851 - 328 pages
...spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth ; to know the worst, and to provide for it. I have but one lamp, by which my feet are guided ;...British ministry, for the last ten years, to justify these hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the house ? Is it that... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...whole truth, and to provide for it. I have but one lamp, by which my feet are .guided ; and that fe the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging...British ministry, for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the house ? Is it that... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth: to know the worst, and to provide for it. 10 the future but by the past; and, judging by the past,...British ministry for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Trust it not,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, — to know the worst. and to provide for it ! I have but one lamp, by which my feet are guided ;...British ministry, for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House? Is it that insidious... | |
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. 
