 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 pagine
...should go away if not a sadder yet a wiser man. 0 wad some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion. If I speak in public in a noisy self-sufficient manner my listeners may perhaps with justice describe... | |
 | Mary Frederica P. Dunbar - 1883 - 416 pagine
...laborious and bloody warfare. DRHLINCOURT. July 22. Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish talking. BURNS. It is amid many inconsistencies that we learn to be consistent. , t , DR. PUSEY. Marriage... | |
 | Nelson Sizer - 1883 - 740 pagine
...uttered the the immortalized words : " O wad some power the giflie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion ; " out the reporter makes a man's constituents see him as his colleagues in the legislature and convention... | |
 | James Smith Buck - 1884 - 538 pagine
...Scotland's bard apply to all of us : Oh 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 ! Two lengthy and bitter articles from Mr. Cross, that were replied to by Mr. Holton, closed the discussion... | |
 | 1884 - 554 pagine
...Scotland's bard apply to all of us : Oh wad some power the giftie gie' us To see oursels as iihers see us ! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion ! Two lengthy and bitter articles from Mr. Cross, that were replied to by Mr. Holton, closed the discussion... | |
 | Joseph Scott (of Manchester.) - 1884 - 78 pagine
...CITIZENS' AUDITOB, BY JOSEPH SCOTT. 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. EOEEET BUBNS. I. INTEODUCTOEY. IFrora The Manchester City News, Saturday, September 13th, 1884.] As... | |
 | Indiana. State Board of Agriculture - 1884 - 650 pagine
...philosophical strain when he said : " Oh 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." Stati-ticp, more than all else beside, enable a State to see itself as it is. Figures are great truth... | |
 | John Strange Winter - 1884 - 364 pagine
...about the hat, but as for the other — Oh 1 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. The Cuirassiers had been quartered in Blankhampton nearly a year, and had naturally made a large circle... | |
 | Walter Colton - 1886 - 412 pagine
...and expressive as this of the situation of one hesitating between inclination and duty. CHAPTER IV. OH, wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels...mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion ! BURNS. HAVY CHAPLAINS A REFORMER IN WORD AND ONE IN DEED THE CAPSTAN AS A PULPIT—THE SAILOR IN VIEW OF DEATH... | |
 | William Cochrane - 1887 - 346 pagine
...the keen, often-qHoted lines of Burns : O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oorscls as ithers see us ; It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion. What a pity that our national bard was not granted vision, to sing in immortal verse the worth of those... | |
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O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion ! THE WHISTLE. 
