...simply as a particularly good specimen of " that species of rhetoric called rigmarole !" " Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see ourselves as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion !" Thenceforth Mr. Curzon became the decided patron of the governess, though his...

...me, it was sure to die !" The one who can name the author, might give this selection from Burns : " 0, wad some power the giftie gie us To see ourselves as others see us ! It wad frae manie a blunder free us And foolish notion." The one who guesses the name of this last author, might...

...at times so very patronizing and smiling and then again so dignified. I CHAPTER XXIII. Oh had some Power the giftie gie us To see ourselves as others see us ! It had frae mong a blunder free us, An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait, had lea'e us, And...

...depends, and offering up united prayers to heaven for a blessing on their coming season. Oh! " Could we see ourselves as others see us It wad frae mony a blunder free us!" "A striking contrast I must confess," said a friend and visitor on board, who belonged to " these parts,"...

...churches are not only artificial, but rather picturesque — " meant for the world's eye." " Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us ! It wad frae many a blunder tree us And foolish notion ; What airs in dress an' gait wad lea 'e us And ev'n Devotion!"...

...towards St. John's. The time-worn statue of the Patron Saint looked down upon me — " O would some power the giftie gie us To see ourselves as others see us, It would from many a blunder free us, And foolish notion !" Here was I idolizing men who resisted, even...

...man," while he apologises for those faults, and reads & warning to you in the lines — " Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see ourselves as others see us, It would from many a blunder free us, And foolish notion. Yet, with all his faults, he was one of our...

...stringently rebukes, and it is only another instance of the truth of Burns's lines : Oh ! would some power the giftie gie us To see ourselves as others see us. Now that the man is beginning to be forgotten in France, and his failings regarded as amiable weaknesses,...

...of the domestic religion of " The Cottar's Saturday Night," of the philosophical wish, " O wad some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us," of the endearing lines, " Auld Langsyne," of the first of patriotic war songs, " Scots wha hae wi'...

...not fail to call to mind the words of Burns : "Ah ! 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 !" But let us turn to more agreeable themes. We do not believe we have said any thing as yet touching...