 | None - History - 1855 - 214 pages
...the subject fully deserves discussion in a special chapter. Burns, the poet, says :— " 0 wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us ; It would frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion." When I have seen people indulge their... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 434 pages
...the soundness of the thought or sentiment that dictated them is unimpeachable : — ' Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us.' The prevalent notion is that others must necessarily see us as we are — through a clear, transparent... | |
 | 1859 - 52 pages
...disregarded. And there is probably no oftener quoted sentiment than its concluding stanza. " 0 wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us." &c. Truth, like a diamond, is valuable wherever we find it, and shines with equal brilliancy whether... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Art - 1874 - 782 pages
...spinster thought, and with pardonable vanity. " And yet she is very like me" (!) (NB "Oh! wad some power the giftie gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us.") Virtue is not always its own reward, let the copy-books say what they will. Poor Clifton talked on.... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1860 - 1028 pages
...to him that makes me much regret his selection" to be Secretary to the Admiralty. " Oh, would some /> two kinds of décision criteria— those for !" It would be a sight indeed. We might extend this list a long way, and it certainly would not do... | |
 | M J. Steere - Universalism - 1861 - 408 pages
...in comparison with them, he would do well to remember the exclamation of Scotia's bard, " 0 wad some power the giftie gie us. To see oursels as ithers see us! " ISTow, in all this, let me not be understood as callIng experimental religion in question, but the... | |
 | Christian literature for children - 800 pages
...they hope, to attract the observation and exciting the envy of those who see them. " Oh ! wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us — " they would then leam that their attempts at smartness excite only the mirth and sarcastic criticisms... | |
 | Mary Tyler Peabody Mann - Kindergarten - 1864 - 232 pages
...had no second consciousness by which we could judge ourselves ; and Burns, you know, exclaims, — " O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! " M but I agree neither with the philosopher nor the poet, for conscience is that second consciousness,... | |
 | Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch - African Americans in literature - 1864 - 262 pages
...devotion is so obvious that it furnishes a provocation, almost an excuse, for a little coquetry." " ' O, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us ! ' " replied Bryant. He was thinking of Waldron's warning to him, and coupling it with this remark... | |
 | Mary Tyler Peabody Mann - Kindergarten - 1864 - 230 pages
...second consciousness by which we could judge ourselves ; and Burns, you know, exclaims, — " 0 wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! " but I agree neither with the philosopher nor the poet, for conscience is that second consciousness,... | |
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O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, An 
