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" THAT AND A' THAT" Is there, for honest Poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a "
Proceedings and Collections - Page 235
by Nebraska State Historical Society - 1892
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 10

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"...
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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 15

1844 - 648 pages
...The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that, <The 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...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 15

1844 - 638 pages
...The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that, The 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...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 8

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,...
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The Rover, Volume 2

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 ?...
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Annals of the Grand Lodge of Iowa, Volume 17

Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Iowa - 1901 - 788 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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The Church, Volumes 6-7

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...
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The Liberty Minstrel

1845 - 234 pages
...The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor, for a" that ; For a' that and a' that ; Our toils obscure, and a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd, for aj that, What though on homely fare we dine, Wear hodden graytmd a' that, Gie fools their silks, and...
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Discourse on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of William Penn ...

Job Roberts Tyson - 1845 - 102 pages
...that man, however debased by 37 artificial rank, does not forfeit the proper dignity of his nature. " Rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." It tends to break down the barriers which separate castes and races, and to elevate the common...
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Evelyn Stuart, or, Right versus might, by Adrian

Anne Kent - 1846 - 942 pages
...The coward-slave, we pass him by, And dare be poor for a' that. For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a* that. BURNI. BEFORE a month had passed, all was settled; and Mr. Arden, free from the doubts and troubles...
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