 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 the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last...  American Literature 1607-1885 - 189 psl.autoriai: Charles Francis Richardson - 1889Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Salem Town - 1856 - 420 psl.
...it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth ; to know the worst, and to provide for it. $. 1 have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and...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 what there has been in the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 164 psl.
...I hear an idle tale Of any shocking ghost, ^ I '11 tell of this, my lonely walk, AN APPEAL TO ARMS. I HAVE but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and...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 what there has been in the... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 psl.
...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 ;...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 what there has been in the conduct... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 psl.
...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 ;...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 what there has been in the... | |
 | Charles C. B. Seymour - 1858 - 1454 psl.
...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...the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. * * * Let us not, J beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer. Sir,... | |
 | Stephen Feinstein - 2001 - 116 psl.
...liberty? For my part, 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 have no way of judging the future except by the past. Consider the British conduct these last 10 years.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - 2002 - 964 psl.
...challenge his critics to try to keep up with him. In 1775, in our revolutionary era, Patrick Henry said, "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided and...of no way of judging the future but by the past." It is only because the United States was so steadfast in fighting for freedom and democracy that the... | |
 | Tieman H. Dippel, Jr. - 1987 - 212 psl.
...greatest tests as well as our greatest moment. When our nation was in its infancy, Patrick Henry said, "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided,...and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way to judging the future but by the past." Our founding fathers wrote the Constitution and Declaration... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 psl.
...lump on its snout." — Ashanti proverb "I know by my own pot how the others boil." — French proverb "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided and that is the lamp of experience." — Patrick Henry "Each man believes only his experience." — Empedocles "Without experience, nothing... | |
 | Daniel E. Lapin - 2002 - 376 psl.
...the Virginia convention on March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry said: "I have but one lamp by which my feer 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 what there has been in the conduct... | |
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