 | Richard Gilpin - 1867 - 550 ページ
...parallels, it will be seen that Burns only put more tersely and memorably an old sentiment in his — ' The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.' which is our Worthy, as after-dates will shew.i He might be born a week more or less previously,... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1867 - 584 ページ
...A marquis, duke, an' a that ; Eut an honest man's aboon his might, Gude faith, he canna fa' that : The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. Intelligence, labour, self-sacrifice, love of the public cause, alone command their respect,... | |
 | Richard Gilpin - 1867 - 560 ページ
...parallels, it will be seen that Burns only put more tersely and memorably an old sentiment in his — ' The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.' 3 Xicolson and Burns's Cumberland and Westmoreland, vol. i., p. 26. which is our Worthy, as... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 ページ
...sires ; If you degenerate from your race, Their merit heightens your disgrace. Gay, Fable n. part 2. The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. Burns, Honest Poverty. EAPHABL. Fain would I Raphael's godlike art rehearse, And show th" immortal... | |
 | H W. Nicholson - 1868 - 144 ページ
...to-morrow ; but I will first see your friend Jonas myself." CHAPTER XIII. AN ILLUSTRIOUS VISITOR. " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." BURNs. JHE same afternoon, a gentleman of goodly presence entered the blacksmith's shop at Wandsworth.... | |
 | Galveston, Author of Milly Clifford - 1868 - 276 ページ
...deems a gentleman any the worse for being poor. Do you recollect what Eobert Burns says, Amy — ' The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." What is the use of taking trouble about earthly rank. I fully know you are not exempt from the... | |
 | John Tomlinson - 1869 - 192 ページ
...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 that," &c. Would that every poor but honest man was baptized with a similar spirit ! The distinctions... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 ページ
...pass him by, We dare bo 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' that. What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin-grey,1 and a' that ; Gie folks their silks, and... | |
 | Edmund Routledge - 1867 - 172 ページ
...and is still, a source of much consolation to me in my troubles ; for I have never forgotten that " the rank is but the guinea stamp, the man's the gowd for a' that." Perseverance and thrift, and a fair groundwork of acquaintance with the technicalities of botanical... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1870 - 406 ページ
...to keep steadily through life the motto, expressed in the burning words of your Northern poet — " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." And in following this track, where could I have better assurance that I was right, or where... | |
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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 
