 | English literature - 1871 - 632 pages
...homeless, they held their heads high in the presence of the great and mighty of the earth, and taught them that " a man was a man for a' that," and that the poorest and the meanest were the children of the Chnrch and of God, as much as the wealthiest and haiightiest,... | |
 | 1871 - 632 pages
...homeless, they held their heads high in the presence of the great and mighty of the earth, and taught them that " a man was a man for a' that," and that the poorest and the meanest were the children of the Church and of God, as much as the wealthiest and haughtiest,... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1899 - 512 pages
...adopted with some strange ' THE KINGSLE\S. 273 heroic idea of bearing personal testimony to the fact that a man was ' a man for a' that,' and that the ways of West End civilisation are not essential as a certificate of character to one of nature's gentlemen.... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1899 - 442 pages
...were not deliberately adopted with some strange heroic idea of bearing personal testimony to the fact that a man was ' a man for a' that, ' and that the ways of West End civilisation are not essential as a certificate of character to one of nature's gentlemen.... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Travel - 2005 - 417 pages
...aational metropolis, but as aifecting both the white and the black races in every part of the Union. It was intended by the original framers of the Declaration...example to the world. They desired to proclaim that " a roan was a man for a' that," and that the accident of bis color made no difference in his rights or... | |
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I ever feel quite certain whether the oddities of manner and peculiarities of accent were not deliberately adopted with some strange heroic idea of bearing personal testimony to the fact that a man was 