 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.  The Works of Lord Byron - Side 602af George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1901Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Benson John Lossing - 1872 - 638 sider
...his best hold on the memory of modern times. He writes : "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." If this should be thought to be exaggeration, it will not be doubted that national songs,... | |
 | Brookline (Mass.) - 1872 - 866 sider
...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,... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1872 - 372 sider
...1653—1716), said, in a letter to the Marquis of Hontrose, " 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." Hence, although P.'s precept was primarily directed to the praise and worship of God... | |
 | Charles Hindley - 1873 - 562 sider
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Wright ("the journeyman engineer.") - 1873 - 424 sider
...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... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1873 - 488 sider
...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... | |
 | Perry and co, ltd - 1876 - 1022 sider
...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 Clark Murray - 1874 - 234 sider
...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... | |
 | Massachusetts board of educ - 1874 - 512 sider
...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,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 sider
...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... | |
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