 | John Wilson - 1842 - 380 pàgines
...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. " What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hodden gray, and a' that 1 Gie fools their silks,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 384 pàgines
...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 is but the 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... | |
 | 1842 - 620 pàgines
...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"... | |
 | Frances Harriet Green - 1842 - 228 pàgines
...have less of sorrow in them, than of hope. CHAPTER II. " 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 GOLD for a' that. " BURNS. NOT many days after the scene alluded to in the last chapter, two boys met... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pàgines
...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 ?... | |
 | 1844 - 648 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1844 - 638 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1846 - 608 pàgines
...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 - 1901 - 786 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1853 - 684 pàgines
...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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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 toils obscure, and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a 
