...Pope. 10. " 'Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined." 11. "The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. — Burns. 12. "Some true, some light, but every one of them Stamped with the image of the King."...

...poverty That hangs his head and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by ; We dare be puir for a' that. For a' that and a' that, Our toils obscure and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hocidin' grey...

...independent mind of Burns long ago saw through this thin veil of nobility, and declared, in his pithy manner, that " The rank is but the guinea stamp— The man's the gowd for a' that." This is true enough; and the verse is quite applicable, where there is gold as well as stamp,...

...his friends, or even his acquaintances, how could he have borne to read his own two bold lines — " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that" ? Besides, we know from Burns's poetry what was then the character of the people of Scotland,...

...which it is derived. Such persons cannot have read Burns. Or do they think that such sentiments as " The rank is but the guinea stamp, the man's the gowd for a' that," are all very fine in verse, but have no place in the prose of life — no application among...

...which it is derived. Such persons cannot have read Burns. Or do they think that such sentiments as " The rank is but the guinea stamp, the man's the gowd for ;i• that," are all very fine in verse, but have no place in the prose of life — no application...

...poverty That hangs his head and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by ; We dare be puir for a' that. For a' that and a' that, Our toils obscure and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin grey...

...his impress on the mind of Scotland, whose name, among us all, has become a household word : — " The rank is but the guinea stamp — The man's the gowd for a' that." Who that has heard him this evening, or has marked his course in these Provinces, would fear...

...poverty Wha 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,...that, The rank is but the guinea stamp. The man's the gond for a' that." Burns, who made it his boast that he was bred to the plough, and was independent,...

...poverty, 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...that, The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gold for a' that. What though on homely fare we dine, Wear hodden•grey and a' that, 0)iYe fools their...