...attractions. In poverty or lowly birth may be found all that may worthily inspire devoted affection.— " The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." In the very dunghill of dissipation and disgrace will be raked up occasionally a lurking pearl...

...truth in that fine, sturdy, plebeian line which he has so often heard quoted, but never before felt: "The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd, for a' that !" England's " upper classes" have too long scorned to believe that men were men ; her "lower"...

...slave we pass him by, And dare be poor for a' that. For a' that and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The...a' that. " What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hodden grey and a' that ? Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man for a' that....

...that and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; Tho rank is but the guinea's stamp, Tho man's tho gowd for a' that. "' What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hodden grey, and a' that ? Gio fools their silks, nnd knnves their wine, A man's a man for ii' tl:at....

...slave we pass him by, And dare be poor for a' that. For a' that and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The...a' that. " What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hodden gray, and a' that 1 Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man for a' that....

...there for honest poverty And dare be poor for a' that. For a' that nnd a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's...a' that. " What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hodden gray, and a' that? Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man for a' that....

...truth in that rie, sturdy, plebeian line which he has so often heard quoted, but never before felt: " The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd, for a' that !" England's " upper classes" have too long scorned to believe that men were men ; her " lower"...

...less of sorrow in them, than of hope. CHAPTER II. " For a' that, and a' that, Our toil's obscure and a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, THE MAN'S THE GOLD for a' that. " BURNS. NOT many days after the scene alluded to in the last chapter, two boys met...

...meet together, — the Lord is the maker of them all." Or, in the words of the Scottish poet,— " The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a* that." What have you to be afraid of in mixing with the poorer members of the church ? Or in making a friendly...

...one — not even Burns himself, who forced us more intimately to acknowledge ot more deeply to feel, that " The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd, for a' that.'' And is this being, to whom intellect taught philanthropy, to be judged by ordinary rules ?...