 | Charles C. B. Seymour - 1858 - 1454 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...of no way of judging of the future but by the past. * * * Let us not, J beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done every thing that... | |
 | Worthy Putnam - 1858 - 420 pages
...spirit it 7nay cost, I am willing to know the whole truth ; to know the worst, and to provide for it. to know what there has been, in the conduct of the...British ministry, for the last ten years, to justify those hopes, with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves, and the house 1 Is it that... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1859 - 380 pages
...said: "I have no lamp by which my feet are guided, but the lamp of experience. I know no way to judge of the future but by the past. And judging by the...British ministry, for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House." A sailor will... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1862 - 564 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 ;...lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of tho future but by tho past. And, judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 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 ;...that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of j udging of the future, but by the past. And judging.by the past, I wish to know what there has been... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1843 - 260 pages
...spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth ; to know the worst, and to provide for it. 2. 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Tyler - 1866 - 80 pages
...LEFT TO TAKE THEIR CHANCE." Bacon's Essays (XXIX) .of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates. " I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and...the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past." RICHMOND: GARY & CLEMMITT; PRINTERS. 1866. Patrick Henry. Entered in the... | |
 | Owen Collins - 1999 - 464 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...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... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 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...judging by the past, I wish to know what there has heen in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which... | |
 | Curtis Hutson - 2000 - 264 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...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. 
