 | Holbrook Jackson - 2001 - Počet stránok 676
...legislators of the world, proclaims Shelley,6 which is well known and many instances are recorded: If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation,3 saith one, knowing the power of song; and in this spirit Lycurgus, the Lawgiver of Lacedaemon,... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2001 - Počet stránok 1166
...wrote to the Marquis ot Montrose, " I knew a very wise man of Sir Christopher Musgrave's sentiment. He believed, if a man were permitted to make all the...ballads, he need not care who should make the laws " (1703). Ballambangjan, The Straits of. A sailor's joke for a place where he may lay any wonderful... | |
 | Brook Thomas - 2002 - Počet stránok 424
...by the eighteenth-century Scottish nationalist Andrew Fletcher - "I know a very wise man ... [who] believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of the nation" - and declares "The man who would govern a nation by writing its songs was a blethering... | |
 | Erin Barrett, Jack Mingo - 2002 - Počet stránok 236
...about 'an eye for an eye'": "It leaves everyone blind." "If a man were permitted to write the songs, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation." —Andrew Fletcher, Scottish nationalist (1655-1716) Noise Pollution: An old law still in effect requires... | |
 | Paul Henderson Scott - 2003 - Počet stránok 372
...Fletcher makes his celebrated remark: I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Christopher's sentiments, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. And he continues: And we find that most of the ancient legislators thought they could not well reform... | |
 | Paul Henderson Scott - 2003 - Počet stránok 204
...honour the day, Andra Fletcher o Saltoun, tae write: I knew 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. He wes richt then, an he's been richt for gey near twa hunder an fifty year sinsyne. But I'm no shuir... | |
 | Peter Blecha - 2004 - Počet stránok 228
...obscurity they deserve. CHAPTER ? Find the Cost of Freedom I knew 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. — Andrew Fletcher, 1 ?04 usic — considered as an artistic means of freely expressing ideas —... | |
 | Andrew King, John Plunkett - 2004 - Počet stránok 608
...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 force in it than may be generally believed. Some comparatively very... | |
 | John Richetti - 2005 - Počet stránok 974
...antiquarianism, scholarship and high literary culture ROBERT FOLKENFLIK Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun claimed that 'if a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation'.' At the beginning of the eighteenth century, then, at least one shrewd political observer recognised... | |
 | Paul Henderson Scott - 2005 - Počet stránok 390
...important part of Scottish culture. You know the famous remark by Fletcher of Saltoun, who said that if he were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation. My love of Scottish literature began with Stevenson, before I went to school. A Child's Garden of Verses.... | |
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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. 
