 | 1844 - 826 sivua
...dignity of the human soul, because he has never forgotten that amidst all the distinctions of time, " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." Because he has regarded himself as the high-priest of Nature, and the world which we inhabit... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1834 - 424 sivua
...you can counteract by a new moral standard of opinion — once accustom yourselves to think that " Rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that ;" once learn to detach respectability from acres and rent-rolls — once learn indifference for... | |
 | 1835 - 418 sivua
...coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare berpoor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure and a' that, The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a' that. What tho' on namely fare we dine, Wear hoddin-grey, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and... | |
 | 1835 - 522 sivua
...his ain gude will droppit the title o' Sir ; because, said he, chantin a staff o' rantin' Robbie, ' The rank is but the guinea stamp. The man's the gowd for a' that.' He was the anely son o' his father Sir Rob Max'ell, and received the last breath o' his father... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 sivua
...slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! Fot »' that, and a' that, Our toil's obscure and e niest week as I fretted wi' care, I gaed to the tryste that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 750 sivua
...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 stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that; Gie fools their silks, and... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1841 - 370 sivua
...— not even Burns himself — who forced us more intimately to acknowledge, or more deeply to feel, that " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd, for a' that." And is this being, to whom intellect taught philanthropy, to be judged by ordinary rules? —... | |
 | John Bright - 1841 - 228 sivua
...displays as much sense in his shark'stooth ear-ring, as our fairest beauty with her golden drops— " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." A Judge, Attorney and Solicitor Generals, and other officers, are gone from England; the Bishop... | |
 | 1844 - 742 sivua
...was not from the inspiration of thy time-serving muse that he enunciated the noble exclamation — " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gow'd for a' that. It is somewhat strange that our two principal Scottish dramas should inculcate the same doctrine.... | |
 | 1844 - 834 sivua
...dignity of the human soul, because he has never forgotten that amidst all the distinctions of time, " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." Because he has regarded himself as the high-priest of Nature, and the world which we inhabit... | |
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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 stamp ; The man's the gowd for a 
