| Robert Burns - 1839 - 334 pages
...that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a' that. What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hodden-grey, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A mar^ga man for a' that.... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 380 pages
...poverty That hangs his head, and a' that? The coward slave we pass him by, And dare be poor for a' that. For a' that and a' that, Our toils obscure,...guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. " What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hodden gray, and a' that 1 Gie fools their silks, and knaves their... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 384 pages
...coward slave we pass him by, " Is there for honest poverty And dare be poor for a' that. For a' that nnd a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that; The rank...guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. " What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hodden gray, and a' that? Gie fools their silks, and knaves their... | |
| United States - 1842 - 620 pages
...truth in that rie, sturdy, plebeian line which he has so often heard quoted, but never before felt: " The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd, for a' that !" England's " upper classes" have too long scorned to believe that men were men ; her " lower"... | |
| United States - 1844 - 638 pages
...poverty, That bancs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure,...rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd fur a' that. When they reached the fields in the neighborhood of the monuments, they were diverted... | |
| United States - 1844 - 648 pages
...poverty, That hanss Ins head, and a' that T The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure,...rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd fur a' that. о • '. — ' When they reached the fields in the neighborhood of the monuments, they... | |
| 1853 - 684 pages
...meet together, — the Lord is the maker of them all." Or, in the words of the Scottish poet,— " The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a* that." What have you to be afraid of in mixing with the poorer members of the church ? Or in making a friendly... | |
| Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...one — not even Burns himself, who forced us more intimately to acknowledge ot more deeply to feel, that " The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd, for a' that.'' And is this being, to whom intellect taught philanthropy, to be judged by ordinary rules ?... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 608 pages
...it has something better to recommend him. In Paris, and, indeed, in all France, society has agreed that — ' The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.' If De Beranger, Chateaubriand, and De la Martine, were in a salon in France with the De Montmorencys,... | |
| Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Iowa - Fraternal organizations - 1901 - 786 pages
...high station in our institution, which makes the example of a consistent Mason worthy of emulation. "The rank is but the guinea's stamp The man's the gowd, for 'a that." The influence for good of our brethren who have dimitted from our terrestrial lodges to join... | |
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