O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, An Crayon Sketches - Seite 136von William Cox - 1833Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Samuel Roberts Wells - 1871 - 788 Seiten
...elevating the mind, beautifying and spiritualizing the whole, the object of the work will be accomplished. O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us ! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion. — BUKN*. TABLE OF CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. Physigonomy... | |
| Hugh Rowley - 1872 - 278 Seiten
...are going to do, we are now going to do it : permit us to offer you our SPOONFUL I. Burns says : " O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us !" He makes a mistake, for you ought, dear boy, to be exceedingly thankful, for the sake of your own... | |
| Henry Stevens (Jr.) - 1872 - 404 Seiten
...ends with — O wad some Power the giftie gie us, To see oursel as ithers see us ! It wad frae monny a blunder free us, An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait, wad lea'e us, An" even Devotion. 517 BURNS (RGBEBT) A long entirely Autograph Letter, of three quarto... | |
| John Hartley - 1872 - 158 Seiten
...turn it raand. " O, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us, It wad fra mony a blunder free us An' foolish notion. What airs in dress an' gait wad lea' ua An' ev'n devotion." does to hissen 'at he gets rewarded for after — it's th' gooid he... | |
| Nelson Sizer - 1874 - 524 Seiten
...to his disgusted constituents and an astonished public. Burns uttered the the immortalized words: " O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion; " but the reporter makes a man's constituents see him as... | |
| Mary Louisa Searle - 1874 - 286 Seiten
...Jesus. CHAPTER IX. GRACE LEE'S CHOICE. " O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion." Burns. " God must be first ; man second ; self last." JT is not well for a man to pray cream, and live... | |
| Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 484 Seiten
...the soundness of the thought or sentiment that dictated them is unimpeachable : — ' Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us.' The prevalent notion is that others must necessarily see us as we are — through a clear, transparent... | |
| Dorothy Henrietta Boulger - 1874 - 296 Seiten
...spinster thought, and with pardonable vanity. " And yet she is very like me" (!) (NB " Oh! wad some power the giftie gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us.") Virtue is not always its own reward, let the copy-books say what they will. Poor Clifton talked on.... | |
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