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" Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to... "
Famous Orators of the World and Their Best Orations - Page 21
by Charles Morris - 1902 - 639 pages
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Adventures and Achievements of Americans: A Series of Narratives ...

Henry Howe - 1861 - 844 pages
...engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty ? Were we disposed to be of the number of those, who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not...which so nearly concern their temporal salvation ? For his part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, he wat willing to know the whole truth ; to know...
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Readings from the best authors, ed. by A.H. Bryce, Issue 10

Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 pages
...engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty 1 Are we disposed to be of the number of those who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern our temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the...
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A Better Guide Than Reason: Federalists and Anti-Federalists

Melvin Eustace Bradford - 1994 - 246 pages
...the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Moreover, Bradford's especial hero, Patrick Henry, cried out, "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience." Those two Patriot leaders, in arms against the Crown in Parliament, were champions of institutions...
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The Venture Adventure: Strategies For Thriving In The Jungle Of Entrepreneurship

Daryl Bernstein, Joe Hammond - 1996 - 228 pages
...entrepreneur because you'll always have your collected learnings fresh in your head. Patrick Henry proclaimed, "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience." In business, as in life, you have one educational experience after another, but you have a selective...
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The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories

John V. Denson - 1997 - 494 pages
...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,...
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Policies and Perceptions of Insurance: An Introduction to Insurance Law

Malcolm Alistair Clarke - 1997 - 358 pages
...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,...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...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...
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Earn College Credit for what You Know

Lois S. Lamdin - 1997 - 256 pages
...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...
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The Federal-state Relationship, Environmental Self Audits: Hearing ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations - 1998 - 220 pages
...are here, today, one week shy of two hundred and twenty-three years since Patrick Henry said: . . . For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost,...whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it. Patrick Henry speech in Virginia convention, Richmond, March 23, 1775 What was true at the inception...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...4548 I know not what course others may take: but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! 4549 Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. 7541 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' provide for it. HENRY Will 4550 What is research, but a blind date with knowledge? HENRYWilliam (Duke...
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