 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 pages
...weel, VII. To preach an' read ? Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human...as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. "Na, waur than a' !" cries ilka chiel, Tarn Samson's dead! Kilmarnock lang may grunt an' grane, An'... | |
 | Thomas Fitz Randolph Mercein - Ethics - 1855 - 298 pages
...influence—Objection anticipated—Conclusion of the work 273 I. .f njnstite tome to HJoral "Then gently scan your brother man; Still gentler, sister...Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is humau. One point must still be greatly dark, The moving, why they do it; And just as lamely can ye... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1856 - 772 pages
...endowed with such dangerous gifts, tried by such arduous duties, visited by retribution so severe. ' Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister...greatly dark, The moving why they do it ; And just as tamely can ye mark How far perhaps they rue it. ' One of Mary's worst acts was her marriage with the... | |
 | 1856 - 436 pages
...subject. Burns thus sweetly sings— " 0 gently scan thy brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human....still be greatly dark— The moving why they do it : A nd yet more seantly canst thou mark How far perhaps they rue it. Then at the balance let's be mute.... | |
 | India - 1856 - 876 pages
..." O gently scan thy brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Though they may gang a kennin wrong. To step aside is human. One point must still be greatly dark— The moving why they do it : And yet more srantly canst thou mark How far perhaps they rue it. Then at the balance let's be mute. We... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 538 pages
...A treacherous inclination ; But, let me whisper i' your lug, Ye're aiblins nae temptation. ra. Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Tho' they may gang a kenning wrang. To step aside is human: One point must still be greatly dark, The moving why they do... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...for charitable judgments : — " Gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang ! To step aside is human...far perhaps they rue it. •' Who made the heart, 't is He alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord — its various tone, Bach spring — its... | |
 | James Parton - New York (State) - 1858 - 728 pages
...Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wraug, To step aside is human ; One point must still be greatly...far, perhaps, they rue it. " Who made the heart, 'tis Ho alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord — its various tone, Kaeh spring — its various... | |
 | James Ballantine - 1859 - 634 pages
...Burns* own immortal lines: — " Then gently scan your brither man, Still gentler sister woman: Though they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human....as lamely can ye mark How far perhaps they rue it." (Applause.) I sometimes speculate what Burns might have been if he had lived under better influences.... | |
 | Robert Burns - English letters - 1859 - 736 pages
...scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, go, trifle To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly...moving why they do it : And just as lamely can ye mark Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord — its various tone, Each... | |
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Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving why they do it : And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. 
