 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...State. Of Tombs. ANDREW FLETCHER OF SALTOUN. 1653-1716. T KNEW a very wise man that believed that, if a -^ man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. Letter to the Marquis ofMontrose, the Earl cf Rothes, etc. ISAAC NEWTON. 1642-1727. I" SEEM to have... | |
 | Elias Nason - National songs - 1869 - 84 pages
...MINUENTUR ATRAE CARMINE CURAE. Horace, Car., lib. iv, car. xi. '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 op A NATION." Andrew Fletcfitr. ^-ALBANY : J7 s&f. Jo. HARVARD CO:i:3C L!B:;.AiiY A MONOGKAM OUR NATIONAL... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1869 - 392 pages
...acute Fletcher of Saltoun was so sensible of their importance, as to express a deliberate opinion, that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who made the laws of a nation. They who deem this an exaggerated notion, will do well to recollect the... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1870 - 552 pages
...Anne. His writings were chiefly in lh*; 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." MttS. MANLEY (1724), in the reign of Anne, was a dramatist, novelist, and political writer, popular,... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1891 - 1050 pages
...people without power to meet any great crisis or achieve any great deed. Fletcher of Saltoun's saying, " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws, of a nation," expresses a profound truth, because the songs which create as well as express the emotions make the... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Allusions - 1870 - 1004 pages
...the earl of Cromarty, "I knew a very wise man of Sir Christopher Musjfravo's sentiment, id- believed, if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws." (1703.) Ballet is the recital of some adventure or intrigue by gesture and dancing. Baltazari'ni, director... | |
 | John D. Minor, Ohio. Superior Court (Cincinnati) - Religion in the public schools - 1870 - 448 pages
...character. We have all heard of the wise man, quoted by Fletcher, of Saltoun, to the effect " that if he was permitted to make all the ballads he need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Much more true is it that if you be informed what is the religion of a nation, you can with certainty... | |
 | Joseph Barlow Felt - 1870 - 484 pages
...curoe." IIIORACK, Oar., lib. Iv.-car. xi. I knew я very wise man, that believed that ¡fa man wert- permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make tin- laws of a nation. [AXDKEW FLETCHER. Albany : Joel Munsell. 1819. 8vo. pp. 69. . The members of... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1870 - 554 pages
...political tracts. He is the author of the saying, " If a man were permitted to make all the t.Killud*, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation." MBS. MANLET (1724), in the reign of Anne, was a dramatist, novelist, and political writer, popular,... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1871 - 548 pages
...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, in some degree,... | |
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I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — '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. 
