 | James Pycroft - 1873 - 382 pages
...contest the palm of manly prowess with his humblest tenantry, so far acknowledging with Robert Burns, " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." Cricket lies within the reach of average powers. It is no monopoly for a gifted few, nor is... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 622 pages
...qualities, — by what they were rather than by what they were called. He felt, as Burns did, that Tho rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. And, accordingly, in that wonderful gallery of portraits, the prologue to the Canterbury Tales,... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1874 - 396 pages
...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. Being thus himself poor, " following his plough along the mountain side," and having in him,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 pages
...pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that. For a' that, and a' that: Our toils obM'nre, 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 hodden gray, and a' that; (lie fools their silks, and... | |
 | Henry Lonsdale - 1875 - 348 pages
...Magnetic Horizontal Needle to the westward. April 21, 1748. ABRAHAM FLETCHER, TOBACCO-PIPE MAKER. " The rank is but the guinea stamp. The man's the gowd for a' that."—BURNS. fHE rivers and streams of Cumberland are acknowledged to possess a picturesque celebrity... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1875 - 374 pages
...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. Being thus himself poor, " following his plough along the mountain side," and having in him,... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 pages
...ROCHEFOUCAULD : Max. 285. The king can make a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that, — # » * The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. — BURNS. I weigh the man, not his title, -'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 pages
...still a cloudy day." "A MAN'S A MAN FOR A' THAT." Moore has noticed that Burns' famous lines, — " The rank is but the guinea stamp, «,. The man's the gowd for a' that," may possibly have been suggested by the following passage in Wycherley's play of "The Plain... | |
 | Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Molière - 1876 - 504 pages
...to be like them ; and the lustre which their actions reflect upon us, demands 2* Burns also says " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." that we should do them like honour, follow in their footsteps, and not degenerate from their... | |
 | George Bruce - 1876 - 642 pages
...As for birth, all men are descended from Adam and Eve." — .Sir W. Scott, in " Quentin Durward." " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." — Burn*. TT^UPHEME, come unto my Muse -1— ^ And aid her right a theme to choose, Nor let... | |
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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 
