 O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n Devotion ! ADDRESS TO EDINBURGH.  The Listener - Page 259by Caroline Fry - 1833 - 269 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John H. B. Nowland - Indianapolis (Ind.) - 1877 - 636 pages
...taken an object and plows his furrows straight. " O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ; It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion." DOCTOR JAMES H. ROBINSON. Dr. Robinson was born i>ear Abbington, West Virginia, on the 28th of July,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1880 - 1024 pages
...winks and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin' ! Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion : What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, And even devotion ! 1 Lunardi made several ascents in his... | |
 | Otis Gibson - Social Science - 1877 - 432 pages
...most inhuman and barbarous custom. But " O wad some power the giltie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion." I remember that while in China this custom came up for discussion in the native Church. A Christian... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1878 - 550 pages
...and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin' ! Oh, wad some power the giftie gi'e us To see oursel's as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And e'en devotion ! A BARD'S EPITAPH. [In this self-condemnatory... | |
 | 1878 - 742 pages
...House ; and it wu the same with poor Stuart Mill " "O wad some power the gif tie gie us, to see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, and foolish notion." It would — you bet ! The following appears to be partly an affaire de occur and partly an affair... | |
 | Horace - 1878 - 252 pages
...See the note on the passage. So Burns, " 0 wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion. 300. sic is the usual commencement of invocations. See note on 2 Sat. ii. 124. — pluris, '' for more... | |
 | Septimus Smet Thorburn - Frontier and pioneer life - 1879 - 320 pages
...>mi mi) ting || || {m 6000641 63Q DAVID LESLIE ' O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion." BURNS. HAL DAVID LESLIE A STORY OF THE AFGHAN FRONTIEK BY SS THOEBUEN BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE AUTHOR OF ' BANNtf... | |
 | Allan Cunningham, Charles Mackay - Poetry - 1879 - 628 pages
...winka and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin' ! O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us An' foolish notion ; What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion ! XLIX. EPISTLE TO... | |
 | Education - 1886 - 738 pages
...We said then, as we have often said since : " Oh ! wa'd some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us; It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion." It was in the South, some years since. At a dinner-party, one • day, a gentleman, whom I knew very... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - General - 1871 - 618 pages
...himself; and therefore Burns cries — " Oh, wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us — To see oursels as ithers see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion. What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, And e'en Devotion." Then indeed we might, doubtless, fashion... | |
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