 I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Christopher's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.  Notes and Queries - Page 1481879Full view - About this book
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1850 - 570 pages
...the famous phrase of the wise man, whom he does not name, ( and which has grown into a proverb : ) " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation," * he indicated the necessity for that appreciation of, and sympathy with, the domestic life of a people... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1843 - 342 pages
...to him, played some English airs, which made him weep like a child. Fletcher, of Saltoun, said : " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make all the laws of a nation." The brilliant, but profligate, Sheridan having lived in an age where its... | |
 | Literature - 1917 - 920 pages
...British Army by the study of its songs. The man who first said: "If a man were permitted to make ali the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation," would be sore puzzled by our soldiers. No nation has given birth to greater poets than the On Reading... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1845 - 340 pages
...to him, played some English airs, which made him weep like a child. Fletcher, of Saltoun, said : " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make all the laws of a nation." The brilliant, but profligate, Sheridan having lived in an age where its... | |
 | 1846 - 586 pages
...OF THE PEOPLE. BY W. LANDLESS. Fi.ETcnr.n of Saltoun, in his ' Conversations on Government,' said, ' If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make all the laws of the nation.' There is contained in these few simple words a very profound truth, which,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1184 pages
...nor cared to comprehend, nor to have understood the gentle wisdom of Fletcher of Saltoun — "That if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a people." He never gained their respect; bat, by his self-seeking, his self-promotion to power and place,... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1847 - 336 pages
...to him, played some English airs, which made him weep like a child. Fletcher, of Saltoun, said : " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not cnre who should make all the laws of a nation." Tl.e brilliant, but profligate, Sheridan having lived... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1888 - 662 pages
...Saltoun, rather than Drummond of Hawthornden, ii supposed to Ьате known a man who " believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Much curious information is supplied in the various chapters on carols and wasiail songs, church ales... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1879 - 566 pages
...Can any of your readers afford any light hereon ! CLEMENT T. GWYNNE. Leok, Staff*. FLETCHER'S SATING ABOUT BALLADS. — Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun's well-known...to make all the ballads he need not care who should m&ketiv laws of a nation." I should like to know if tie belief here attributed to "a very wise man... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1850 - 524 pages
...is made to reply, ." One would think this last were of no great con£ sequence," he adds : " I said, I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Christopher's...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. And we find that most of the ancient legislators thought they could not well reform the manners of... | |
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