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 Moral Culture of Infancy - Page 156by Mary Tyler Peabody Mann - 1864 - 216 pagesFull view - About this book
| Naval art and science - 1876 - 1186 pages
...performance of this wolf in sheep's clothing in order to force it on to the Board of Trade. " Oh ! wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us." This valve, with the lever and dead weight, was loaded to blow off at 35 Ibs. and rose to 46 Ibs.,... | |
| William Cox - 1833 - 256 pages
...about the city, and it is not impossible that a man may be run over by a church. HYPOCHONDRIACISM. 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 wadlca'e us.... | |
| 1836 - 422 pages
...here I must pause — I think the bull was not baited after all. WGT HYPOCHONDRIACISM. О wad some power the giftie gie us. To see oursels as ithers see us ! It wad frae monte a blunder free us, An' foolish notion ; What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us.... | |
| Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee - Christian education of children - 1837 - 124 pages
...OF EDUCATION BY THE AUTHOR OF 'THREE EXPERIMENTS OF LIVING,' 'ELINOR FULTON,' AND * RICH ENOUGH.' 1 O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dresg an' gait would lea'e... | |
| 1840 - 1176 pages
...kindliness of spirit, could be an emanation from the God of love ?" — Vol. ii. pp. 238-9. " Oh I wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us ! " We cannot imagine how she ventures in her own person to close the third volume with the following... | |
| Hannah Flagg Gould - Gift books - 1843 - 256 pages
...Questioned how it happened there, What can blushing Fanny say ? THE BATS FLIGHT BY DAYLIGHT. A FABLE. " O, wad some power the giftie gi'e us To see oursels, as ithers see us; It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion." BURNS. A BAT one morn from his covert flew... | |
| Unitarianism - 1844 - 586 pages
...mathematician meddling with the Belles Lettres, and by a bigotted priest talking out of the pulpit. " O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us." Alas! No good angel can do it; still less has any cacodaemon the power. There is no aqua miralilis,... | |
| English literature - 1858 - 786 pages
...Scottish proverb, Tlu pat sudna cd1 ttiekettleblack — and of which Burns' well-known lines, ' 0 wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us,' are but a variation- appears among other nations in a multiplicity of forms. The Italians have it,... | |
| Ira Warren - Oxford movement - 1847 - 292 pages
...patronize this folly could offer the Scottish bard's simple prayer, and receive answer to it,— " O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us,"— we are sure they would forsake it at once. So strong has its influence become, however, that few seem... | |
| Ira Warren - Oxford movement - 1847 - 278 pages
...this folly could offer the Scottish bard's simple prayer, and receive answer to it, — " 0 wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us," — we are sure they would forsake it at once. So strong has its influence become, however, that few... | |
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