 | 1876 - 1186 sivua
...performance of this wolf in sheep's clothing in order to force it on to the Board of Trade. " Oh ! wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us." This valve, with the lever and dead weight, was loaded to blow off at 35 Ibs. and rose to 46 Ibs.,... | |
 | 1840 - 1176 sivua
...kindliness of spirit, could be an emanation from the God of love ?" — Vol. ii. pp. 238-9. " Oh I wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us ! " We cannot imagine how she ventures in her own person to close the third volume with the following... | |
 | 1844 - 586 sivua
...mathematician meddling with the Belles Lettres, and by a bigotted priest talking out of the pulpit. " O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us." Alas! No good angel can do it; still less has any cacodaemon the power. There is no aqua miralilis,... | |
 | 1858 - 788 sivua
...Scottish proverb, Tlu pat sudna cd1 ttiekettleblack — and of which Burns' well-known lines, ' 0 wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us,' are but a variation- appears among other nations in a multiplicity of forms. The Italians have it,... | |
 | Ira Warren - 1847 - 292 sivua
...patronize this folly could offer the Scottish bard's simple prayer, and receive answer to it,— " O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us,"— we are sure they would forsake it at once. So strong has its influence become, however, that few seem... | |
 | 1847 - 540 sivua
...converse. BYRON'S Don Juan. 8. What exile from himself can flee ? BYRON'S Childe Harold. 9. Oh ! wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us ! 10. Self is the medium least refin'd of all, Through which opinion's searching beams can fall : And,... | |
 | 1847 - 526 sivua
...converse. BYRON'S Don Juan. 8. What exile from himself can flee ? BYRON'S Childe Harold. 9. Oh ! wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us ! 10. Self is the medium least refin'd of all, Through which opinion's searching beams can fall : And,... | |
 | Ira Warren - 1847 - 278 sivua
...this folly could offer the Scottish bard's simple prayer, and receive answer to it, — " 0 wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us," — we are sure they would forsake it at once. So strong has its influence become, however, that few... | |
 | Frederick William Shelton - 1851 - 196 sivua
...judges of what does not concern themselves ; but " Oh," as one in Scotia has expressed it, " wad some power the giftie gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us !" Nevertheless, the jailer, who was convicted of his fault, was at last determined to do his duty.... | |
 | 1852 - 978 sivua
...fact, he confesses some faults, and appears conscious of others, as he exclaims — "O ! would some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us ; It would frae inoiiy a blunder free us, And foolish notion." After Mr. Jerdan has rebuked his rebukers,... | |
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Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us. 
