 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 pages
...prepared to believe, with the poet, that such brethren are among the best of their country's sons, that " From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad ;" and you desire to join in the Invocation that bursts from his pious and patriotic heart, — " O... | |
 | Oliver Prescott Hiller - England - 1857 - 388 pages
...Americanisms,"—of the old proverb, " Those that live in glass houses should not throw stones." THE SCOTCH. From scenes like these Old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad. COTTER'S SATDRDAT NIGHT. THE Scotch have been called " the New-Englanders of Britain." And, certainly,... | |
 | Geography - 1918 - 596 pages
...UPSTANDING Such Scottish types as this village blacksmith inspired Burns to philosophize: "Princes ahd lords are but the breath of kings; An honest man's the noblest work of God." £-0 Photograph by W. R«d "I AM, INDEED, SIR, A SURGEON TO OLD SHOES" " Long may the hardy sons... | |
 | London metrop. tabernacle - 1884 - 906 pages
...also reared a monument to his memory, on which they inscribed the lines — " Princes and lords'are but the breath of kings, An honest man's the noblest work of God." CA DAVIS. an& f entlimlg* THE beloved Apostle John was in four remarkable ways honoured above... | |
 | 1901 - 498 pages
...them, and for their little one's provide; But chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside. Prom scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That...heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind; What is a lordling's pomp? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts... | |
 | James D. Smart - Religion - 1954 - 212 pages
...husband prays: Hope ' springs exulting on triumphant wing,' That thus they all shall meet in future days. From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad." Family religion two hundred years ago was not always so beautiful and impressive as this. It could... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...is when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, (1. 77—80) 20 God!" (1. 163-166) 21 O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent,... | |
 | John Muir, Terry Gifford - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 940 pages
...Hays. Happy, Godt'ul homes; again and again while with you I repeated to myself those lines of Burns: "From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, that makes her loved at home, revered abroad." Don't forget me and if in this changing world you or yours need anything in it that I can give, be... | |
 | Peter B. Waite - Education - 1994 - 366 pages
...argument: From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad, Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, "An honest man's the noblest work of God." 31 In the lecture halls of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and St Andrew's this came to be a democracy... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 1997 - 613 pages
...English. From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, 'An honest man's the noble work of God:' And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly road, The Cottage leaves the Palace far behind:... | |
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From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad : Princes and lords are but the breath of kings; " An honest man's the noblest work of God ;" And, certes,* in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage... 
