 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
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 pages
...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 ; 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... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 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 ; 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 Epy Lovell - 1843 - 524 pages
...gratitude and affection for La Fayette. 37. BATTLE THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE. Henry. Mr. President, — I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided ; and that is the lamp of experience. I have no way of judging the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...spirit it may cost, I am willing 10 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 15 the past, I wish to know... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1844 - 900 pages
...gratitude and affection for La Fayette. 37. BATTLE THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE. Henry. Mr. President, — I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided ; and that is the lamp of experience. I have no way of judging the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there... | |
 | Salem Town - 1845 - 296 pages
...time you hear us, That praise has but sharpen'd our relish for books. LESSON LXXXI. WE MUST FIGHT. I HAVE but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way °f Ju^ging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know... | |
 | Salem Town - 1845 - 264 pages
...time you hear us, That praise has but sharpen'd our relish for books. LESSON LXXXI. WE MUST FIGHT. 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 Frost - 1845 - 458 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 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,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...spirit itmaya».' I am willing to know ihe 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 EXI-EKIENCK. I know of no way of judging of the future, but by the past. And, judging by the past,... | |
 | 1845 - 564 pages
...spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the w(iole truth ; to know the worst, and to provide for it. 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... | |
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