 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1904 - 336 pages
...Scotch republican of two centuries ago, Andrew Fletcher: " 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." Indeed, who is there among us that can repeat the language of any law? and who that cannot repeat multitudes... | |
 | 1897 - 672 pages
...writes — " I said 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...not care who should make the laws of a nation." This may be rudely paraphrased, that it is more important to make the songs of a nation than to frame its... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - Electronic journals - 1924 - 734 pages
...hours to strengthening or exhilarating strains. A wise friend of Fletcher of Saltoun remarked that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. In a manner somewhat similar, one might assert that the chronicles of a nation, or a community, are... | |
 | Andrew Fletcher - History - 1997 - 304 pages
...great consequence. I said, 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. And we find that most of the antient legislators thought they could not well reform the manners of... | |
 | James Shanahan, Michael Morgan - Performing Arts - 1999 - 286 pages
...transactions (Fisher, 1984). Gerbner often quotes Scottish patriot Andrew Fletcher's observation that "If a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Such a romantic notion is not easily testable, but that makes it no less compelling. The stories of... | |
 | Mike Budd, Steve Craig, Clayton M. Steinman - Performing Arts - 1999 - 252 pages
...a letter to the marquis of Montrose, the earl of Rothes, "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." Today it's television that makes "all the ballads." It comes into the home where the child is born.... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 1160 pages
...théâtre 31 May 1913 Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun ifSss 1716 Scottish patriot anil anti-Unionist 22 Ifa man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation. 'An Account of a Conversation concerning a Right Regulation of Government for the Good of Mankind.... | |
 | Barbara Korte, Ralf Schneider, Stefanie Lethbridge - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 360 pages
...for his arguing against the 1707 Act of Union) who wrote that he "knew a very wise man [who] believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation"."6 There is talk now of having the new Scottish Parliament's interior carved with a selection... | |
 | Holbrook Jackson - Antiques & Collectibles - 2001 - 676 pages
...legislators of the world, proclaims Shelley,6 which is well known and many instances are recorded: If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation,* saith one, knowing the power of song; and in this spirit Lycurgus, the Lawgiver of Lacedaemon, sent... | |
 | Harry White, Michael Murphy - History - 2001 - 310 pages
...reads in full: 'I said, 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.'38 Fletcher's acquaintance's determination of song here suggests more that it potentially makes... | |
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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. 
