...from the lawn sleeves and square cap of his diocesan will never endanger his humility. Pope says truly Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or prunello. Again — " Rich and splendid situations in the church have been justly...

...was so full of the opposite conviction, that he has even written a bad couplet to express it: — " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather and prunella." Those lines in Cowper also must sound very puerile or old-fashioned...

...lawn sleeves and square cap of his diocesan will never endanger his humility. 7. Pope says truly — Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella. •yr ,1. " • • i> Again — " Rich and splendid situations in...

...knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might. Guid faith, he mauna fa' that! For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that The pith of sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher ranks than a' that. As come it will for a' that, That sense...

...his might, Gude faith he mauna fa' that! For a' that, and a' that. Their dignities, and a' that, 30 The pith o' Sense, and pride o' Worth, Are higher rank than a' that. — Then let us pray that come it may. As come it will for a' that. That Sense and Worth, o'er a' the...

...cobbler ('leather') is contrasted to the parson ('prunella' — the material of the clerical gown): Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather and prunella. Alpine Club: the Alpine Club was founded in London in 1857. 360 and...

...Morton was quoting loosely from the fourth epistle of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man (1734), lines 204-5: "Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow: The rest is all but leather or prunella." Congressional Globe, 4Oth Cong., zd sess., 1867-68, 3871-72; New York...

...the self-esteem of a poor but independent man: A prince can make a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; . . . The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a' that. Social stratification could have more important effects than noble titles, though. Careful observers...

...man's aboon his might. Guid faith, he maunna fa' that! For a' that, an' a' that, Their dignities, an' a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth Are higher rank than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will, for a' that, That sense and worth, o'er a' the...

...assessed in view of this possibility of earning merit in every estate (Stand), in every occupation: 'Worth makes the Man and want of it the Fellow. / The rest is all but Leather or Prunella.' "54 It is clear that Abbt's perspective was attuned to the traditional...