 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 - Strana 1481879Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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, 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.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - Počet stránok 890
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Percy, Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1876 - Počet stránok 572
...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...make all the ballads, he 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,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - Počet stránok 768
...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... | |
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