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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. "
The Living Age - Page 614
1909
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American Oratory: Or Selections from the Speeches of Eminent Americans

1836 - 550 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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The American Orator's Own Book: Or, The Art of Extemporaneous Public ...

1836 - 362 pages
...spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth ; to know Hie worst, and to provide for it. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided ; and that is the lamp of experience. 1 know no way to judge of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what...
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Specimens of American Eloquence: Consisting of Choice Selections from the ...

1837 - 396 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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Principles of elocution

William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...willing to know the whole truth ; to know the worst, and to provide for it. I have but one lamp, hy 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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The Rhetorical Reader: Consisting of Instructions for Regulating the Voice ...

Ebenezer Porter - 1838 - 316 pages
...spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it. 25 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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The National Preceptor: Or, Selections in Prose and Poetry; Consisting of ...

Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it. 3. 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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The Rhetorical Reader Consisting of Instructions for Regulating the Voice ...

Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it. 25 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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American Oratory, Or, Selections from the Speeches of Eminent Americans

1840 - 554 pages
...spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth ; to know the worst, and to provide for iu 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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The American Orator's Own Book: A Manual of Extemporaneous Eloquence ...

1840 - 452 pages
...spirit it may cost, I arn 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 ia the lamp of experience. I know no way to judge of the future but by the past. And judging by the...
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A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment ...

Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...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 : f and, judging by the past, | I wish...
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