| British drama - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 696
...set upon em, and never consider intrinsic worth ? but counterfeit honour will not be current with me: I weigh the man, not his title: 'tis not the king's...heavier : your lord is a leaden shilling, which you may bend every way, and debases the stamp he bears, instead of being raised by't.—Here again, you... | |
| 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...nor station that can dignify-*b>\i the proper and fitting discharge of the duties ol that station. " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." And, then, a last and parting wcid of consolation to those who would call on the sympathies... | |
| John Aikin - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 796
...coward 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 j Gie fools their silks, and... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 752
...slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that Î 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 hamcly fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that ¡ Gic fools their silks, and... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 370
...one—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?—are... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 754
...coward 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 hamcly fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and... | |
| Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn) - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 450
...his ain gude will droppit the title o' Sir ; because, said he, chautin a staff o' rantin' Bobbie, ' 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... | |
| 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 878
...Wycherley. the Knglish dramatist of the seventeenth century, says in his comedy of the Plain Dealer, ' 1 weigh the man, not his title : 'tis not the king's...or heavier. Your lord is a leaden shilling, which yon bend every way, and debuses the stamp he licars.' Everybody will remember the passage in Burns—... | |
| 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 834
...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 Imigh-priest of Nature, and the world wimich we inhabit... | |
| 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 828
...dig-nity 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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