| Robert Grant Webster - 1880 - 466 páginas
...commercial prospects, one in which, I need hardly say, I do not agree. Still, to quote Robert Burns — ' Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us ! ' Mr. John Bright has lately told us, in language more remarkable for its abusive character than... | |
| 1923 - 718 páginas
...friends. There is even some doubt about these. Plato commands you to "know thyself." That's quite a chore. "Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us," Damsel, your young man tries his best to let you know nothing of his worser parts. Young man, the maidens... | |
| 1928 - 684 páginas
...bonnets, the earnest wish of Burns is a guiding principle of every successful teacher: "0 wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion." Such self-analysis must not only be objective... | |
| 1889 - 514 páginas
...those around him can, he would put himself to the "bother" of annihilating it forever. "O' wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us; It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And idle notion." Israel Bennion. A GREAT NEW YORK FIRE. NOT the... | |
| 1925 - 702 páginas
...which ends with the oft-quoted stanza which we sometimes hurl back at the other fellow : O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us ! It wad from mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion. The success of the "patriots" of the French... | |
| Sir Edward James Reed - 1880 - 416 páginas
...a time when its chief difficulty in pursuing the new course has been a financial one. " 0 wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us." This is the spot where the bombarding fleets lay ; there were the batteries that we overthrew ; and... | |
| 1900 - 708 páginas
...mistook ; for Burns was neither misunderstood nor mistaken by anybody when he wrote : — O, wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us; It wad frae mony a blunder free us And foolish notion. Perhaps, after all, it is better not to call... | |
| Henrietta Eliza V. Stannard - 1881 - 340 páginas
...met was in love with him ; now there was no doubt whatever about the hat, but as for the other — Oh ! wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us ; It wad frae mony a. blunder free us, And foolish notion. The cuirassiers had been quartered in Blankhampton... | |
| John Bartholomew Gough - 1881 - 354 páginas
...fashionable; their sons go to ruin; their daughters make fools of themselves. We may say of them, " Oh! wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us." I once heard of a lady of this class, who, having a sudden call of hungry visitors, not being prepared... | |
| Ohio State Bar Association - 1904 - 256 páginas
...Perhaps the man on the bench as well as the man at the bar sometimes feels like exclaiming: "O wad some power the giftie gie us to see oursels as ithers see us !" But in such interchanges of opinion the judge has the advantage, for he has occupied both positions.... | |
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