 | Hugh Rowley - Children - 1872 - 278 pages
...to do, we are now going to do it : permit us to offer you our SPOONFUL I. Burns says : " O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us !" He makes a mistake, for you ought, dear boy, to be exceedingly thankful, for the sake of your own... | |
 | 1873 - 588 pages
...and his prayer so necessary — ' Oh that the Power the gift would gie us, To see ourselves as others see us! It would frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion.' Ttie man who has somewhat more than ordinary strength, but believes himself many Samsons rolled into... | |
 | Nelson Sizer - Occupations - 1874 - 524 pages
...disgusted constituents and an astonished public. Burns uttered the the immortalized words: " O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion; " but the reporter makes a man's constituents... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 456 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... | |
 | Dorothy Henrietta Boulger - 1874 - 296 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.... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 484 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... | |
 | College students - 1881 - 640 pages
...title, "Agents Wanted," Cora L. Swift, of Oberlin, made a unique plea for plain speaking. "O wad some power the giftie gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us." My problem was solved — even now I could see Homing before my excited vision one of these transparent... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - American literature - 1876 - 168 pages
...like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever. Tarn CfShanter. IL Oh, wad some power 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' us, And e'en... | |
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O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! 
