| 1844 - 826 pagina’s
...dignity of the human soul, because he has never forgotten that amidst all the distinctions of time, " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." Because he has regarded himself as the high-priest of Nature, and the world which we inhabit... | |
| 1832 - 952 pagina’s
...to acknowledge, or more deeply to feel, that * The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the guwd for a' that.' " And is this being, to whom intellect...philanthropy, to be judged by ordinary rules '(— are we to gunge and mete his capacities of good, bv the common measure we apply to common men 'i — No ! liiere... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagina’s
...coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, and a' that. Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a' that. What tho' on hamely fare we dine. Wear hodden-gray, and a' that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves... | |
| Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1834 - 424 pagina’s
...you can counteract by a new moral standard of opinion — once accustom yourselves to think that " Rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that ;" once learn to detach respectability from acres and rent-rolls — once learn indifference for... | |
| 1835 - 522 pagina’s
...his ain gude will droppit the title o' Sir ; because, said he, chantin a staff o' rantin' Robbie, ' The rank is but the guinea stamp. The man's the gowd for a' that.' He was the anely son o' his father Sir Rob Max'ell, and received the last breath o' his father... | |
| John Aikin - 1838 - 796 pagina’s
...we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! Fot »' that, and a' that, Our toil's obscure and a' iest week as I fretted wi' care, I gaed to the tryste that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and... | |
| John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 pagina’s
...slave, we pass him hy, We dare he poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toil's obscure and a' ng strains, The lov that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and... | |
| John Bright - 1841 - 228 pagina’s
...displays as much sense in his shark'stooth ear-ring, as our fairest beauty with her golden drops— " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." A Judge, Attorney and Solicitor Generals, and other officers, are gone from England; the Bishop... | |
| Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pagina’s
...us more intimately to acknowledge ot more deeply to feel, that " The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd, for a' that.'' And is this being,...be judged by ordinary rules ? are we to guage and mete his capacities of good, by the common measure we apply to common men ! No ! there was in him a... | |
| 1844 - 834 pagina’s
...dignity of the human soul, because he has never forgotten that amidst all the distinctions of time, " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." Because he has regarded himself as the high-priest of Nature, and the world which we inhabit... | |
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