| Ira Warren - 1847 - 292 páginas
...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... | |
| Arethusa Hall - 1849 - 230 páginas
...self-knowledge ? Why ? earnest truth is contained in these playful lines of the Scottish bard : " 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." Fourth. In the words of a writer of our... | |
| Frederick William Shelton - 1851 - 196 páginas
...judges of what does not concern themselves ; but " Oh," as one in Scotia has expressed it, " wad some power the giftie gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us !" Nevertheless, the jailer, who was convicted of his fault, was at last determined to do his duty.... | |
| 1852 - 518 páginas
...great, how small, how wise, how foolish thou art ! All are willing to pull motes from a brother's eye. "Oh wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us." Our country is essentially a money making one. Time is occupied in accumulating wealth, but very little... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 páginas
...of mankind would be avoided if we could realize the beautiful language of Burns : — " 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." that the ambitious man really pursues.... | |
| William Jerdan - 1852 - 438 páginas
...unequal strife ; and, like the others, the great majority of them struggle and sink. ' * O ! would some Power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us ; It would frae mony a blunder free us And foolish notion. What airs and graces, and a' would lea'... | |
| 1852 - 978 páginas
...fact, he confesses some faults, and appears conscious of others, as he exclaims — "O ! would some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us ; It would frae inoiiy a blunder free us, And foolish notion." After Mr. Jerdan has rebuked his rebukers,... | |
| George Peck - 1854 - 312 páginas
...undiscovered by themselves. Well might such pray, in the language of the old Scotch bard : — " 0 wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us ! It wad frae mony a folly free us, An' foolish notion : How mony airs in gait wad lea us, An' e'en... | |
| Sarah Mendell, Charlotte Hosmer - 1854 - 322 páginas
...in the hotel where we are now stopping, as a change from the more quiet boarding-house. " 0 wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us." So said Scotia's bard, and so said I, mentally, as I sat this morning silent spectator of the ceremony... | |
| None - 1855 - 214 páginas
...the subject fully deserves discussion in a special chapter. Burns, the poet, says :— " 0 wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us ; It would frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion." When I have seen people indulge their... | |
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