...performance of this wolf in sheep's clothing in order to force it on to the Board of Trade. " Oh ! wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us." This valve, with the lever and dead weight, was loaded to blow off at 35 Ibs. and rose to 46 Ibs.,...

...city, and it is not impossible that a man may be run over by a church. HYPOCHONDRIACISM. 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 Ica'e us. An'...

...fault or differ in opinion wi' ye, and that's wrang. Ye mind what Robin Burns says, " Oh ! wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us." When ye gang into the playhouse, down ye clap your benches on the partition o' the boxes, up gangs...

...EDUCATION BY THE AUTHOR OF 'THREE EXPERIMENTS OF LIVING,' 'ELINOR FULTON,' AND * RICH ENOUGH.' 1 O 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 dresg an' gait would lea'e us.1...

...kindliness of spirit, could be an emanation from the God of love ?" — Vol. ii. pp. 238-9. " Oh I wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us ! " We cannot imagine how she ventures in her own person to close the third volume with the following...

...calm contempt, and could not help recalling the verses of Burns — " Oh, wad some power the gifty gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us, It would frae many a blunder free as." It was a grievous pity that some power had not condescended to pinch this...

...innocent and quiet, take That for an hermitage. LOVELACE VOL. in. ELPHINSTONE. CHAPTER I. Ah wod some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us. BURNS. OF all the qualities or passions by which that combination of multifarious trickery called life...

...it happened there, What can blushing Fanny say ? THE BATS FLIGHT BY DAYLIGHT. A FABLE. " O, wad some power the giftie gi'e us To see oursels, as ithers see us; It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion." BURNS. A BAT one morn from his covert flew To...

...meddling with the Belles Lettres, and by a bigotted priest talking out of the pulpit. " O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us." Alas! No good angel can do it; still less has any cacodaemon the power. There is no aqua miralilis,...

...Scottish proverb, Tlu pat sudna cd1 ttiekettleblack — and of which Burns' well-known lines, ' 0 wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us,' are but a variation- appears among other nations in a multiplicity of forms. The Italians have it,...