 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
 | Perry and co, ltd - 1876 - 1022 pages
...resort will be had to criminal." Fletcher, 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." These words contain a very profound truth, which, though disputed by superficial... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...Orphan. Act iii. Sc. I. ANDREW FLETCHER OF SALTOUN. 1653-1716. I knew a very wise man that believed that, if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. Letter to the Marquis of Montrose, the Earl of Rothes, eh. 1 Cf. Gray, The Bard, Part i. St. 3. ISAAC... | |
 | Massachusetts board of educ - 1874 - 512 pages
...primarily, the cultivation of the memory. I -quite agree with Fletcher in thinking him a wise man who said, "If a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." There is in the saying a great deal of philosophy worth our attention. I would not, however, be understood... | |
 | John Clark Murray - Ballads, English - 1874 - 234 pages
...their Popularity 178 INDEX 199 GLOSSARY 203 INTRODUCTION. " I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." — FLETCHER OF SALTOUN, in a Letter to the Marquis of Montrose, etc. IT is desirable that the reader... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...Orphan. Act iii. Sc. I. ANDREW FLETCHER OF SALTOUN. 1653-1716. I knew a very wise man that believed that, if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. Letter to the Marquis of Montrose, the Earl of Rothes, etc. 1 Compare Gray, The Bard, Part i. St. 3.... | |
 | Thomas Percy, Henry Benjamin Wheatley - Ballads, English - 1876 - 572 pages
...the ballad was a song sung while the singers were dancing. When Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun wrote, " I knew a very wise man, so much of Sir Christopher's...need not care who should make the laws of a nation," he referred to the popular songs of the people, but, in point of fact, a nation makes its own ballads,... | |
 | DONALD MACLEOD, D.D - 1876 - 982 pages
...this connection, Fletcher of Saltoun's famous saying about " a very wise 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," had more of profound truth and lorce in it ihan may be generally believed. Some comparatively very... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...that others may be decorated with their feathers. FEI.LTHAM. I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws, of a nation. FLETCHER OF SALTOUN. By the original law of nations, war and extirpation were the punishment of injury.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1876 - 576 pages
...Anne. His writings were chiefly in the form of political tracts. He is the author of the saying, " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Mits. MANLEY (1724), in the reign of Anne, was a dramatist, novelist, ami political writer, popular,... | |
 | Democratic National Committee (U.S.) - Campaign literature - 1876 - 764 pages
...nor cared to comprehend, nor to have understood the gentle wisdom of Fletcher of Saltoun : ' f That if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who shoulH make the laws of a people." He never gained their respect; but, by his self-seeking, his self-promotion... | |
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