 | 1899 - 876 страници
...for us teachers, here is that power that Burns longed for in the lines that are familiar to all : 0 wad some pow'r the giftie gie us, To see oursels as...ithers see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion." The April number of the Educational Review (New York) contains, beside a slight... | |
 | Iowa State Bar Association - 1896 - 1030 страници
...holds the mirror of truth to the face of nature. The Scotch plowboy has said: "Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us to see oursels as ithers see us; it wad frae monie a blunder free us, an' foolish notion." What Robert Burns wished for the individual—that each,... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 страници
...Burns's (1759-96) "To a Louse; on Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet at Church" (1786): "O wad some Power the giftie gie us / To see oursels as ithers see us! / It wad true monie a blunder free us, / An' foolish notion: / What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, / An'... | |
 | R.B. Burns - 1991 - 384 страници
...such as Chaucer's 'Ful wys is he that kan hym selven knowe' (Monkes Tale), and Robert Burns' plea, Oh wad some pow'r the giftie gie us to see oursels as ithers see us, It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An foolish notion. Dobzhansky (1967), the famous geneticist, claims self-awareness... | |
 | Gilbert Childs - 1995 - 161 страници
...ways. As Robert Burns, the canny Scots poet, in his poem 'To a Louse' put it: "Oh wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us. It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion." Of course, the trouble is that we don't want to run the risk of telling our best... | |
 | Elizabeth Towne - 1996 - 184 страници
...friends. Emerson bids us listen to them and learn of them. Burns exclaims: — "0 wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us ! It wad frae mony a blunder free us And foolish notion." Our critics are answering Love's attraction to free ug from blunders and foolish... | |
 | Cary L. Cooper, Lawrence A. Pervin - 672 страници
...squirming of a genteel woman to an undetected louse crawling on her in church, wrote: O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, an' foolish notion. What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, an ev'n devotion!... | |
 | Benita Eisler - 1998 - 228 страници
...of the words of the Scottish bard — "O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as.ithers see us, — It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion; Sic airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, An' e'en devotion." I have often thought that we should have... | |
 | William Barclay - 1999 - 228 страници
...straightness and fidelity, the humble and the self-effacing spirit. Burns was right when he wrote: O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us. An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, An' ev'n devotion!... | |
 | Robert J. Aumann - 2000 - 806 страници
...games, strategic equilibrium, Nash equilibrium, common priors, Harsanyi doctrine. 1. INTRODUCTION O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! — Burns THE EQUILIBRIUM CONCEPT of Nash (1951), together with its refinements,2 is without doubt... | |
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O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us ! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An... 
