 | Boston Pier, or the Long Wharf Corporation - 1873 - 42 σελίδες
...past, is the only thing certain and clear. Yet there is force in Patrick Henry's famous words, "I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past; " and, so judging, do we not feel that there is a glorious and progressive future before our city? If we take... | |
 | Walter Pierce - 1874 - 86 σελίδες
...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 what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to... | |
 | National Reform Association (Founded 1863) - 1874 - 134 σελίδες
...History supplies us the only human aid for our guidance, and that is the lamp of experience. We know of no way of judging of the future, but by the past. Lifting our eyes from the present, let us gaze out over the ocean of Time, over lines of century-waves... | |
 | 1875 - 558 σελίδες
...for it. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp jf 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 of the British ministry for the last ten years to... | |
 | Faraday Society - 1909 - 378 σελίδες
...is, twenty times the cost." One of the noted statesmen of our early American history said : " I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past," so we will go to China and by courtesy of Mr. Bailey Willis, of the United States Geological Survey... | |
 | Theodore S. Hamerow - 1987 - 292 σελίδες
...emphasized the importance of history. He declared, according to the testimony of his listeners, that "he had but one lamp by which his feet were guided; and that...the lamp of experience. He knew of no way of judging the future but by the past." That past, he declared, had taught him not to trust Great Britain. In... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 552 σελίδες
...HISTORY 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. — Patrick Henry History is written by the winners. — Alex Haley The most unpredictable thing in... | |
 | Gyeorgos C. Hatonn - 1993 - 228 σελίδες
...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. Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done everything that could be... | |
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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. 
