| James Willis Westlake - 1876 - 168 páginas
...is shed ; Or like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever. Tarn CfShanter. IL Oh, 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 dress and gait wad lea' us,... | |
| James George Beaney - 1876 - 32 páginas
...almost certain death to his patient to do so. May we not well exclaim, with Burns — " O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us." Another practitioner in Kennaquhair, who had got so much into the habit of " sir"-ing everybody that... | |
| Emma Jane Worboise - 1877 - 602 páginas
...on ! I will put out the gas." Catherine went slowly upstairs, thinking of the familiar lines — " Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us." CHAPTER IX. MAKING THE BEST OF IT. "MOTHER," said Anne the next evening, " are you vexed with me ?... | |
| 1877 - 478 páginas
...dispense with much of the pathogeuetic indications offered for our guidance. OUR ERRORS. " 0 wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us." IT seems a long time since our allopathic friends have deigned to notice us, and we cannot help feeling... | |
| Mary Tyler Peabody Mann - 1877 - 266 páginas
...second consciousness by which we could judge ourselves ; and Burns, you know, exclaims, — " 0 wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! " but I agree neither with the philosopher nor the poet, foi conscience is that second consciousness,... | |
| Abraham Hayward - 1878 - 482 páginas
...impression that the soundness of the thought or sentiment that dictated them is unimpeachable : — ' Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us.' The prevalent notion is that others must necessarily see us as we are — through a clear, transparent... | |
| William Angus (of Manchester.) - 1878 - 244 páginas
...pulpits of that Church whose creed, according to a modern writer, is, " By taste ye shall be saved ?" Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us ! SALE OF ST. JOHN'S, COVENTRY. May 12, 1874. THE advowson of St. John the Baptist, Coventry, which... | |
| Franklin Everett - 1878 - 646 páginas
...man. Discovering his scoundrelism, we marked him. The mean pup afterwards bragged of it " 0 wad some power the giftie gie us, * To see oursels as ithers see us/' If the gods should vouchsafe to deal with such men, they would not call on the mountains to fall on... | |
| Phebe F. Mackeen - 1879 - 336 páginas
...turned the card and wrote, " In front of The Eagle. Last Wednesday morning. Half past four o'clock. ' Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us ; It wad frae mony a folly free us.' " and handed it back. He read it eagerly, lifted his eyes to her... | |
| 1880 - 592 páginas
...of the trough by the more vigorous. And so the strong pigs grow stronger and the weakly weaklier. " Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see usl " For there, in a parable, dearly beloved, is exactly what is going on in the little family of... | |
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