 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 758 页
...it may cost', I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worsf, and to provide** for it. 2. I have but one lamp, by which my" feet are guided;...know of no way of judging of the future', but by the pasf; and, judging by the past!, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 页
...anguish of 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...experience. | I know of no way of judging of the future, I but by the past' : | and, judging by the past, | 1 wish to know | what there has been in the conduct... | |
 | William Fewsmith, Edgar Arthur Singer - 1868 - 250 页
...bridges were made over any of the streams; there were no roads, nor any houses except Indian wigwams. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of expericnce. Jndge not, and ye shall not be judged. The better and more nutrition! tha dict, the better... | |
 | Alexandra Hanson-Harding - 1997 - 92 页
...independence began. Henry's powerful speech is excerpted here. "Glut Me Libe/itu o/i Gi(& Me DeatW" 0775) ... 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. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct... | |
 | John V. Denson - 1997 - 494 页
...independence and a critic of the Constitution because of too much centralization of power, stated that, "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no other way of judging the future but by the past."27 The founders were familiar with the first historian,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 页
...Coleridge, vol. 1, "Thomas Allsop" (1836). Repr. in Collected Works, vol. 14, ed. Kathleen Coburn (1990). 2 I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past. PATRICK HENRY, (1736-1799) US statesman. Quoted in Sketches... | |
 | Malcolm Alistair Clarke - 1997 - 358 页
...the law of liability or regulating insurance. Last but not least every risk has an actuarial aspect. 'I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future, but by the past.' This lesson, thus expressed by an American lawyer,... | |
 | Lois S. Lamdin - 1997 - 256 页
...some strategies for coping with the demands of going back to school. Surviving and Thriving in College I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. Patrick Henry Ok, this is it. You're going to be a student again. You've explored your career and life... | |
 | William W. Johnstone - 1998 - 356 页
...learn languages and study the writings of the ancient intellectuals. Patrick Henry said it, Mother: I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past. And if I stay with you, Mother, I'll soon be as crazy... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 页
...part, whatever anguish of 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...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... | |
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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. 
