...dignity of the human soul, because he has never forgotten that amidst all the distinctions of time, " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." Because he has regarded himself as the high-priest of Nature, and the world which we inhabit...

...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. What tho' on hamely fare we dine. Wear hodden-gray, and a' that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves...

...you can counteract by a new moral standard of opinion — once accustom yourselves to think that " Rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that ;" once learn to detach respectability from acres and rent-rolls — once learn indifference for...

...his ain gude will droppit the title o' Sir ; because, said he, chantin a staff o' rantin' Robbie, ' The rank is but the guinea stamp. The man's the gowd for a' that.' He was the anely son o' his father Sir Rob Max'ell, and received the last breath o' his father...

...pass him by, We 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 though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that; Gie fools their silks, and...

...pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! Fot »' that, and a' that, Our toil's obscure and a' that, eek as I fretted wi' care, I gaed to the tryste that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and...

...even Burns himself — who forced us more intimately to acknowledge, or more deeply to feel, that " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd, for a' that." And is this being, to whom intellect taught philanthropy, to be judged by ordinary rules? —...

...displays as much sense in his shark'stooth ear-ring, as our fairest beauty with her golden drops— " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." A Judge, Attorney and Solicitor Generals, and other officers, are gone from England; the Bishop...

...dignity of the human soul, because he has never forgotten that amidst all the distinctions of time, " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that." Because he has regarded himself as the high-priest of Nature, and the world which we inhabit...

...bend every way, and debases the stamp he bears.' Everybody will remember the passage in Burns — ' The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.' It is most unlikely that Burns ever read Wycherley. Still, it is possible; and we therefore...