 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 - Pàgina 1891856Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1876 - 576 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pàgines
...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.... | |
 | Democratic National Committee (U.S.) - 1876 - 764 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1877 - 800 pàgines
...in a letter to the Marquis of Montrose, remarked, that he 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. He has woven this maxim into his character so strongly, and so thoroughly, that it has become a part... | |
 | 1877 - 896 pàgines
...of the streets." Hereupon Fletcher of Saltoun said he knew a very wise person 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." We have all heard these words quoted — or misquoted — times innumerable, and there can be no doubt... | |
 | Queensland. Department of Public Instruction - 1917 - 794 pàgines
...appreciation and enjoyment of the songs of the Old Lands. ' ' I know 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, in a letter to the Marquis of Montrose.) This saying is often quoted... | |
 | William Harrison - 1877 - 168 pàgines
...of the Manx peasantry. Such is the influence of a ballad, that well might the sage of old remark, " if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Some on the Island deny Christian's guilt altogether; but there are others who are so far of a different... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence - 1983 - 138 pàgines
...And history is the basis of myth in modern life. Nearly three hundred years ago Andrew Fletcher said, "If a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." We have gone from ballads to headlines and histories, but the interpreters of our past still affect... | |
 | Edwin M. Eigner, George J. Worth - 1985 - 268 pàgines
...11 What Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun actually wrote was: 'I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr-'s sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted...ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a ration'; An Account of a Conversation concerning a Right Regulation of Governments for the Common Good... | |
 | William Stephenson - 252 pàgines
...style of music, he averred, could upset a state. The poet Fletcher is often quoted to the same effect: "If a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Happily, nothing is as simple as this. Yet music, drama, and art, whether high or low, make one feel... | |
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