 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Cuba - 1860 - 364 pages
...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, And ev'n Devotion. 8. But we must still pass on, contemplating picture after picture in this career of crime. The friends... | |
 | Daniel Robinson Hundley, William James Cooper - Enslaved persons - 1860 - 376 pages
...overweening self-esteem, we do not fail to call to mind the words of Burns : "Ah ! wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels' as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us( And foolish notion !" But let us turn to more agreeable themes. We do not believe... | |
 | 1863 - 382 pages
...ancient Fatalism, we trust many of our own interests to no surer compass. " O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us An' foolish notion." Luck, as a word and as a custom, is becoming more and more common in our midst, varying directly as... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 440 pages
...blastie's makin ! Thae winks and finger ends, I dread, Are notice takin ! 0 wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels 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, And ev'n Devotion ! ADDRESS TO EDINBURGH.... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...want wit to make. DRTDEN. — Prol. to Tyrannic Love, Line 24. 0 wad some pow'r the giftie gie ns, To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion. BURNS. — To a Louse. Breathe his faults so quaintly, That they may seem the taints... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 358 pages
...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, And even devotion ! 1 Lunardi made several... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 368 pages
...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, And even devotion ! 1 Lunardi made several... | |
 | 1865 - 452 pages
...created by his foolish proposition. We would then simply say to him — " 0 wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us An' foolish notion." AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE LATE BROTHER HENRY FOWLE, WRITTEN IN 1833. [Continued from page 331.] Monday,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...faith, he '11 prent it. On Captain Grose's Peregrinations through Scotland. O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion. To a Louse. The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley ; And leave us... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1865 - 470 pages
...blastie's makin ! Thae winks and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin ! O wad some some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels 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, And ev'n Devotion ! ADDRESS TO EDINBURGH.... | |
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us to see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us an' foolish notion: what airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, and ev'n Devotion! 
