 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
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 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, etc. 1 Compare Gray, The Bard,... | |
 | Thomas Percy, Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1876 - 572 sider
...Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun wrote, " 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," he referred to the popular songs of the people, but, in point of fact, a nation makes... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1876 - 576 sider
...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,... | |
 | DONALD MACLEOD, D.D - 1876 - 982 sider
...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 lorce in it ihan may be generally believed. Some comparatively... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 sider
...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... | |
 | Democratic National Committee (U.S.) - 1876 - 764 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | William Harrison - 1877 - 168 sider
...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... | |
 | Queensland. Department of Public Instruction - 1917 - 794 sider
...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... | |
 | 1877 - 896 sider
...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... | |
| |
