| Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For -a? that, and a' that, Our toil 's obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man 's the gowd for a' that ! What tho' on namely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that ; Gie... | |
| 1855 - 458 pages
...The coward-slave, we pass him hy, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toil 's obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man 's the gowd for a' that ! What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that ; Gie... | |
| 1855 - 528 pages
...gives him simply vox, etpreterea nihil. He is made to feel the truth of the couplet of Burns — " The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for all that." This rank, however, he takes with him into the walks of professional life, and find it his... | |
| Robert Burns - 1856 - 538 pages
...poverty, That hangs 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 toil's obscure, and...but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that? Gie fools their silks, and knaves... | |
| Mrs. Manning (Charlotte Speir) - 1856 - 526 pages
...to Brahmanical commentators, and quite uncountenanced by Brahmanical institutions. CHAPTER VI. • " -For a' that, and a' that, Our toil's obscure, and...but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that."—BTTBNS. HAVING now disposed of the Brahmans and the Kshatriyas, our next inquiry must be into... | |
| 1856 - 224 pages
...arrant snob \ve país him by,] We dare sell tea for a' that. For a' that aud a' that, Our coffee, figs, and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. What though a grocer's shop we keep, Wear apron white and a' that, And toil and trade while dandies... | |
| Eustace Clare Grenville Murray - 1856 - 368 pages
...duke, and a' that, But an honest man's aboon his might, Gude faith he canna' fa' that, And a' that, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." Another pyramid might be becomingly erected on the spot where Mr. Mather was cut down at Florence.... | |
| William Maginn - 1856 - 372 pages
...attractions. In poverty or lowly birth may be found all that may worthily inspire devoted affection — " The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a" that." In the very dunghill of dissipation and disgrace will be raked up occasionally a lurking pearl... | |
| 1856 - 730 pages
...but is onely the prayse and surname of vertue." — Sir Thomas Elyot, The Gouvernor, book ii. c. 4. ' The rank is but the guinea's stamp ; The man's the gowd for a' that." Burns. " Lesse like than Ponies steple to a dagger shethe." — Sir Thos. More's Eng.\ Works,... | |
| William Maginn - 1856 - 374 pages
...attractions. In poverty or lowly birth may be found all that may worthily inspire devoted affection — " The rank is but the guinea's stamp. The man's the gowd for a' that." In the very dunghill of dissipation and disgrace will be raked up occasionally a lurking pearl... | |
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