 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...know the worst, and to provide for it. I have but one lamp, by which my fee.t are guided ; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging,...which our petition has been lately received ? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...but one lamp by which my feet are guided ; and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way to judge of the future but by the past. And judging by the...which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, Sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...but one lamp by which rny feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way to judge of the future but by the past. And judging by the...which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way to judge of the future but by the past. And judging by the...the House? Is it that insidious smile with which our petitiob has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...th'e lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And, judg. ing by the past, I wish to know what there has been in...which our petition has been lately received ? Trust it not, sir ; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...we disposed to be of the number of 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 British ministry, for the last ten years, to 35 kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations,... | |
 | Speeches, Addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 552 pages
...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...which our petition has been lately received ? Trust it not, sir ; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask... | |
 | Speeches, Addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 550 pages
...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...which our petition has been lately received ? Trust it not, sir ; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...provide for it. * General Burgoyne's army. 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...which our petition has been lately received ? Trust it not, sir : it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask... | |
 | Oratory - 1836 - 362 pages
...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...which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir ; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suifer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask... | |
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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. And, judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the... 
