| Alfred Henderson - Proverbs, Latin - 1869 - 526 pages
...Unicuique dedit vitium natura create. PROP.— To each man at his birth nature has given some fault. " Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister...may gang a' kennin' wrang To step aside is human." See "Peccare." " Vitiistumo." Unicum arbustum non alit duos erithacos. — One tree won't hold two... | |
| Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...Affliction's sons are brothers in distress ; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss. A Winter's Night. Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler,...may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human. Address to the Unco Gxid. What 's done we partly may compute, But know not what 's resisted. ibid.... | |
| 1869 - 474 pages
...reektouched by the tenderness of these less and defiant sinner is present — lines by poor Burns ? Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Though they may go a little wrong, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark The moving svhy they... | |
| 1909 - 1106 pages
...Gold commanded. I did so — '"Then gently scan your brother Man, Still gentlier sister Woman ; Tho' they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human...One point must still be greatly dark', The moving ll'hy they do it; And just as lamely can ye mark How far perhaps they rue it. *• ' Who made the heart,... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 508 pages
...notes to his translation, here quotes the well-known lines of Burns, Address to the Unco Guid: — "Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Though they may gang a kennin' wrung, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving why they do it : And... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...snag, A treacherous inclination, — But, let me whisi>er i' your lug, Ye 're aiblius iiae temptation. he body of contraction plucks The very keiinin' wrang, To step aside is human. One point must still be greatly dark, The moving why they do... | |
| Electronic journals - 1872 - 602 pages
...petere sicpius ineruit." How beautifully Burns ("Address to the Unco Guid ") expresses the idea : — " Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister...may gang a' kennin' wrang, To step aside is human." I need scarcely say that the line quoted by your correspondent is from Pope's " Essay on Criticism... | |
| Electronic journals - 1872 - 592 pages
...petere siepiua meruit." How beautifully Burns ("Address to the Unco Guid ") expresses the idea : — "Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler...may gang a' kennin' wrang, To step aside is human." I need scarcely say that the line quoted by your correspondent is from Pope's " Essay on Criticism... | |
| Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1873 - 476 pages
...took its wing, I sat, but neither heard nor saw. Unicuique dedit vitium natura creato (Propertius) — Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister...may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human. Video meliora proboque ; Deteriora sequor (Ovid) — Breathes there a man whose judgment clear Can... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1873 - 614 pages
...intervened to prevent its perpetration. Of many evil-doers and their sin we may say with Burns : — " One point must still be greatly dark, The moving why they do it ; And just as lamely can we mark How much perhaps they rue it." It is astonishing how very little we clearly know about Judas... | |
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