 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.  The Living Age - Page 6141909Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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 ; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And, judging by the past, I wish to know... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...whatever anguish of spirit it may cost. I am willing to know the 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 of the future, but by the past. And, judging... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Trust it not, sir ; it will prove a snare to 9 I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that lamp is experience. I know of no way of judging of 11 your feet: suffer not yourselves to be betrayed... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 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 of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And, judging by the past, I wish to know... | |
 | 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 ; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And, judging by the past, I wish to know... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - 1854 - 460 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 of no way of judging of the future but by the past ; and judging by the past, I wish to know... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 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 of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know... | |
 | 1854 - 560 pages
...I am willing to know the jvhole truth.^_to_know the wojgtjjtnd to provide for it. . . „.« Thave 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. And judging by the past, I wish to know... | |
 | 1854 - 576 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 1 imp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but l,y the pust. And, judging by the... | |
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