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" Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human. "
A Critique on the Poems of Robert Burns - Page 34
1812 - 70 pages
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Latin proverbs and quotations: With translations and parallel passages and a ...

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...
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Treasury of Choice Quotations

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....
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Independent Monthly

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...
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Outlook and Independent, Volume 93

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,...
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 3

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...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

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...
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Notes and Queries

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...
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Notes and Queries

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...
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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Volume 2

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...
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

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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