| George Frederick Pardon - 1868 - 302 페이지
...sure to die !" The one who can name the author, might give this selection from Burns : " O, 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... | |
| John Gibson Cazenove - 1869 - 216 페이지
...minds. In no other way are we so likely to be able to realize the aspiration of the poet: " O wad some power the giftie gie us To see ourselves as others see us ! " Among books on this subject which strike me as eminently fair, I would also name Principal Tulloch's... | |
| William Henry Harvey - 1869 - 404 페이지
...I suppose, in yours ; but I confess I was only half, for I did feel a little nettled. " Oh wad some Power the giftie gie us To see ourselves as others see us." I should then have written with more caution. I am really obliged to you for telling me that my book... | |
| Alexander Hislop (publisher) - 1870 - 378 페이지
...Crookit carlin," quo' the cripple to his wife. " Oh 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. " — Burns. Cry a' at ance, that's the way to be served. Curses mak the tod fat. So long as he is... | |
| 1870 - 586 페이지
...glass room, and photography may yet prove to be that for which the poet Burns sang, — " Oh wad some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us." INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. PRESENTATION OF PHOTOGRAPHS, <fec., Ac. AT the Spring meeting of the Royal... | |
| 1879 - 650 페이지
...minds, and has prepared their conceit, had it beguu to develop, for a heavy fall— " Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see ourselves as others see us : " — for whatever was really prevailing in the poet's mind when he penned those lines, the usual... | |
| Robert Hanham Collyer - 1871 - 166 페이지
...easy to find fault or see defects in others. " Oh, 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." It should not be forgotten that, though no one could claim priority in experiments performed in 1840,... | |
| R. Thomas - 1871 - 274 페이지
...his speech, answered in words which, if they were not the words of Burns, about — " Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see ourselves as others see us ! It wad f rae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion : What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, And even... | |
| Hawley Smart - 1871 - 340 페이지
...theaytricals for? It's going clear agin Providence, damme.' CHAPTEK IX. ' LIA'S MEDITATIONS.' Oh wad some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us ! SANG one of the greatest of our songsters some eighty and odd years ago. Ah, me ! but I think it... | |
| R. Thomas - 1871 - 274 페이지
...in his speech, answered in words which, if they were not the words of Burns, about— " Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see ourselves as others see us I It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion : What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,... | |
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