 | 1868 - 532 стор.
...may call himself a respectable man because he can afford to pay so much ; but we should keep in mind that — "The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd tor a that." I think that any ordinary learnod Mason (not even a DPGM) might detect an impostor from... | |
 | John Tomlinson - 1869 - 192 стор.
...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 that," &c. Would that every poor but honest man was baptized with a similar spirit ! The distinctions... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 стор.
...coward-slave, wo pass him by, We dare bo 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. What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin-grey,1 and a' that ; Gie folks their silks, and... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 стор.
...ca'da lord, Wha struts an stares an a' that ; Though hundreds worship at his word, He' s but a coof for a' that. '.? - * The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the goud for a' that. Yes ; but a lord's a man too, and should not be insulted in his own house ; moreover,... | |
 | Edmund Routledge - 1867 - 172 стор.
...vocation was, and is still, a source of much consolation to me in my troubles ; for I have never forgotten that " the rank is but the guinea stamp, the man's the gowd for a' that." Perseverance and thrift, and a fair groundwork of acquaintance with the technicalities of botanical... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1870 - 406 стор.
...to keep steadily through life the motto, expressed in the burning words of your Northern poet — " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." And in following this track, where could I have better assurance that I was right, or where... | |
 | Francis Young (F.R.G.S.) - 1870 - 262 стор.
...coward-slave, we pass Lim 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 (1) for a' that. What though on namely fare we dine, Wear hodden grey, and a' that ? Gie|2) fools their... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1870 - 642 стор.
...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 gowd1 for a' that. What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hodden' gray, and a' that ; Gie fools their... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1895 - 404 стор.
...world's dread ' laugh ' ; m the sturdy self-assertion of Burns, the honest faith of the peasant bard, that 'The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that!' In Ben Jonson it gave character to the whole man. Goldsmith and Chatterton Hogg and Hugh Miller,... | |
 | 1871 - 694 стор.
...Advocate or Solicitor-General. The theory of the bar is, (God knows the practice is not the same)— " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." And in this view the whole bar, save those who are, or have been Lord Advocate or Solicitor-General,... | |
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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 
