| A citizen of Pittsburgh - Readers - 1818 - 276 pages
...spirit it might 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 tiie lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future, butby the past ; and, judging by... | |
| 1822 - 734 pages
...transforms us into beasts. But is this the part of wise men, engaged in a struggle for liberty ? For myself, 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, what has there... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 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 ; 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... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 544 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 Jamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past,... | |
| Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 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... | |
| George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 282 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,... | |
| John Barber - Elocution - 1828 - 310 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... | |
| Psychology - 1828 - 394 pages
...spirit it might 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... | |
| Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...eyes, see not, and having eats, hear not the things that so nearly concern their temporal salvation? 2. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. What do the war-like preparations which cover our waters, and darken our land, imply? Are they necessary... | |
| John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 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... | |
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