| Brookline (Mass.) - 1872 - Počet stránok 866
...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, he...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... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1872 - Počet stránok 514
...CRITICAL REVIEW LYRIC POETS. " I knew a very wise man who lielieved that, if a man were permitted 10 make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Andrew fTetclter of Saltoun. So, nearly two centuries ago, wrote a sagacious Scottish Statesman. The... | |
| Charles Hindley - 1873 - Počet stránok 562
...STRAND, wc, AND 185, FLEET STREET, EC 1873. y >•• £• " 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." Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1653-1716). ' WSRgHE Collection of Ancient Songs and Ballads, written on... | |
| John Hill Burton - 1873 - Počet stránok 488
...beloved. It was an eminent and popular Scotsman who first uttered the judgment, so often repeated, " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." In literature of this kind Scotland is peculiarly affluent. The ballad poetry of Scotland may now be... | |
| Thomas Wright ("the journeyman engineer.") - 1873 - Počet stránok 424
...tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee." COWPEE. " T 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." So wrote that bold and intelligent seventeenth-century politician, Andrew Fletcher of Saltown, in a... | |
| Perry and co, ltd - 1876 - Počet stránok 1022
...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 - 1874 - Počet stránok 798
...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 - Počet stránok 512
...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 - 1874 - Počet stránok 234
...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... | |
| 1875 - Počet stránok 596
...progress of Roman Catholicity in this country. It was once said by an acute observer of human nature, " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." We might say also, Give us the externals of a nation's worship, and we will tell you its religion.... | |
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