 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1845 - 186 σελίδες
...done you great honor by staying a couple of months with you, in your humble cottage." " O, would some power the giftie gie us, To see oursel's as others see us, It would from many a folly free us, And foolish notion." LETTER FROM HARRIET ANN TO ZEPHINA. Soon after... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 σελίδες
...you tent it ; A chiel 's amang you takin' notes, An', faith, he 'll prent it. To a Louse. O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursel's as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, Epistle to a Young Friend. Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps... | |
 | 1856 - 674 σελίδες
...attention. Th« "manufacturer" of this "Patent Hat" should not have forgotten his own motto: " 0 wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursel's as others see us." TRAVELS IN EUROPE AND THE EAST. A year in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France, Belgium, Holland,... | |
 | 1858 - 688 σελίδες
...fault-basket slung behind the back, visible to all save the owner, down to the Ayrshire bard — " O wad some power the giftie gi'e us, To see oursel's as others see us," moralists have striven to furbish up the old familiar maxim, and bring out its meaning anew. MII&V... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1860 - 364 σελίδες
...outrages perpetrated by Slavery in Kansas, you do not seem to think even require an apology. O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursel's as others see us ; It wad frae monie a blunder frae na, And foolish notion ; What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 368 σελίδες
...speed The blastie's makin' ! shrivelled dwarf Thae winks and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin' ! Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion : What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 358 σελίδες
...speed The blastie's makin' ! shrivelled dwarf Thae winks and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin' ! Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion : What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1864 - 380 σελίδες
...what cursed speed The blastie 's makin' ! Thae winks and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin' ! Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others sec us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion : What airs in dress and gait wad... | |
 | 1864 - 594 σελίδες
...authority as an acute observer of mankind and of human actions, proposes this — " Oh ! would some Power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us." Such, then, is the obligation under which we lie — such the work which, as Churchmen, we are called... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1870 - 652 σελίδες
...what cursed speed The blastie's9 makin' ! Thae winks and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin' ! Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,... | |
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Oh, wad some power the giftie gi'e us To see oursel's as others see us... 
