...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,...

...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...

...conventionalities. He had ridiculed degrees. He had laughed at the rank and standing of a barrister. " The rank is but the guinea stamp — the man's the gowd for a' that." How often had he declared to himself and others that that should be his motto through life....

...interests. CHAPTER XXI. "ALAS! POOR GHOST." " 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." — BURNS. |HE means was this, — " Miss Field," said he, one evening, •' you have not been...

...simple faith than Norman blood.—Tennyson. 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, * * » « For a' that, and a' that, Their tinsel show, aud a' that, The honest man, though e'er...

...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...

...qualities, — by what they were rather than by what they were called. He felt, as Burns did, that The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. And, accordingly, in that wonderful gallery of portraits, the prologue to the Canterbury Tales,...

...pass him by, And dare be poor, for a' that. For a' that, and a' that, Our toil's obscure, and a' that, The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. What tho' on hamely fare wo dine, Wear hodden grey, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and...

...contest the palm of manly prowess with his humblest tenantry, so far acknowledging with Robert Burns, " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." Cricket lies within the reach of average powers. It is no monopoly for a gifted few, nor is...

...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...