 | 1858 - Počet stránok 796
...Мизэтгм, EDINBURGH, Stptmber, 1858. [Ott. ТНК BALLAD POETRY OF SCOTLAND AND OF IRELAND.* " IF a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...not care who should make the laws of a nation." This is a saying which has often been cited, not always quite so accurately, perhaps, as on the present... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - Počet stránok 608
...and others, erroneously ascribed to the Earl of Chatham : ' 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! The newspapers may be said to have supplanted the ballads ; yet during the late war between England... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1858 - Počet stránok 574
...bard, of the Southeys for their hearts, and the Moores for their verse. 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 character of a people is preserved in their national songs. "God save... | |
 | 1861 - Počet stránok 624
...imaginary interlocutor in his Account of a Conversation concerning a Right Regulation of Government) ' that he believed, if a man were permitted to ' make...need not care who should make the 'laws of a nation.' But the adage, with all its smartness, is a very deceitful one. A curious essay might be written to... | |
 | 1861 - Počet stránok 610
...imaginary interlocutor in his Account of a Conversation concerning a Right Regulation of Government) ' that he believed, if a man were permitted to ' make...the ballads, he need not care who should make the ' lawa of a nation.' But the adage, with all its smartness, is a very deceitful one. A curious essay... | |
 | Lawrence Anderson - 1864 - Počet stránok 196
...song excites the patriotic sentiment. He was a wise man, and knew the national feeling well, who said, "If a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." The writer of national songs, therefore, confers a benefit upon his country, and a debt of gratitude... | |
 | 1856 - Počet stránok 502
...poetry of America. " I knew," wrote old Fletcher of Saltoun, " 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." If this be true, neither Whittier nor his friends need doubt much the result of their labors, as the... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - Počet stránok 504
...Andronicus. Ad. fin. 1. 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 Bathes, etc. ISAAC NEWTON. 1642-1727. I seem to have... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1865 - Počet stránok 636
...speakers were particularly prone to the quotation of that strange saying of Fletcher of Saltoun — " If a man were permitted to make all the Ballads, he need not care who should make the Laws of a country." It has been the destiny of Young Ireland to make and to administer the laws of other countries... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1866 - Počet stránok 570
...patriotic bard, of the Southeys for their hearts, and the Moores for their verse. 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 character of a people is preserved in their national songs. "God save... | |
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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. 
