 | 1844 - 826 sider
...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... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 sider
...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' that. What tho' on hamely fare we dine. Wear hodden-gray, and a' that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1834 - 424 sider
...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 - 522 sider
...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 sider
...we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! Fot »' that, and a' that, Our toil's obscure and a' iest 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, John Frost - 1838 - 752 sider
...slave, we pass him hy, We dare he poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toil's obscure and a' ng strains, The lov 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 sider
...— 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 sider
...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 - 878 sider
...bend every way, and debases the stamp he bears.' Everybody will remember the passage in Burns — ' The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.' It is most unlikely that Burns ever read Wycherley. Still, it is possible; and we therefore... | |
 | 1844 - 834 sider
...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 
