 | George Gleig - 1812 - 142 페이지
...speed The blastie's inakiu I Thae winks an' ^nger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin f " O wad some pow'r the giftie gi'e us, To see ourselves as others see us ! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion : What airs in dress an" gait wad lea'e us, An' ev'n devotion 1" IN the Address... | |
 | 1827 - 500 페이지
...decide by the combined application of our senses and intellectual powers. " O wad some power the giflie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free ui, And foolish notion." This, if the craniologist be correct, is no longer the mere wild wish of a... | |
 | 1827 - 496 페이지
...find it so difficult to decide by the combined application of our senses and intellectual powers. " 0 wad some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us, It wadfrae mony a blunder free us, * And foolish notion." We owe the doctrines of craniology, the science... | |
 | 1832 - 1042 페이지
...than not to see them at all. We may then be enabled to realize the poet's wish, " Ob, wad kind Heaven the giftie gie us» To see ourselves as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An foolish notion," and the very malice that exults in our anticipated destruction may prove like the... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 페이지
...winks and tinger-ends. 1 dread, Are notice takin ! 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 and gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion! 1 Bustle, • Hive. * It is a well-known... | |
 | John Galt - 1833 - 332 페이지
...to propose the mission for one whom he could not approve as the fittest. CHAPTER XVII. " Oh wad some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us." FATHER Dominick left the monastery for the Castle, determined to conduct himself with forbearance,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1838 - 220 페이지
...of faults and frailties, but seldom even think of taking the slightest peep into our own. O wad some Power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us I It wad frae monie a blunder free us An' foolish notion : What airs in dress and gait wad leave us,... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1838 - 708 페이지
...is, in this remark, an egotism and arrogance which tempt one to exclaim with Burns, " Oh, would some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us." Elsewhere the critic is more candid. " As a writer," he says, " Thompson is entitled to one praise... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1841 - 296 페이지
...perfections before I ventured to rebuke those of another. " O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion." If it were only half as easy to amend ourselves, as to reprove others ; and if in giving advice we... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 384 페이지
...published his Don Juan to show that he held virtue to be an accident, and vice a certainty. " O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us !" BIRTH-PLACE OF BURNS. " Robin Bums was born in Kyle." BURNS, RAMSAY, and HOGG, the three chiefs... | |
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Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! 
