 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 страници
...and others, erroneously ascribed to the Earl of Chatham : ' 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.' The newspapers may be said to have supplanted the ballads; yet during... | |
 | 1855 - 518 страници
...whig author in the early part o the 18th century, says, — 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. t Act ii. Sc. 2, 34. 82 THE SPECTATOR. [No. 502. themselves to us,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 страници
...Letter to the Marquis of Montrose, the Earl of Bathes, etc. 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. HENRY ST. JOHN, VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE. 1672-1751. On the Study and... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 страници
...wickedness by infamous ballads sung in every corner of the streets. I knew." he adds, "a very wise man that 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 ancient legislators thought they could... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1858 - 574 страници
...bard, of the Southeys for their hearts, and the Moores for their verse. Fletcher of Saltoun said, " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make all the laws of a nation." The character of a people is preserved in their national songs.... | |
 | 1858 - 796 страници
...Мизэтгм, EDINBURGH, Stptmber, 1858. [Ott. ТНК BALLAD POETRY OF SCOTLAND AND OF IRELAND.* " IF a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation." This is a saying which has often been cited, not always quite so... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 страници
...and others, erroneously ascribed to the Earl of Chatham : ' 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! The newspapers may be said to have supplanted the ballads ; yet during... | |
 | 1861 - 624 страници
...imaginary interlocutor in his Account of a Conversation concerning a Right Regulation of Government) ' 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.' But the adage, with all its smartness, is a very deceitful one.... | |
 | 1856 - 502 страници
...poetry of America. " I knew," wrote old Fletcher of Saltoun, " 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." If this be true, neither Whittier nor his friends need doubt much... | |
 | Lawrence Anderson - 1864 - 196 страници
...song excites the patriotic sentiment. He was a wise man, and knew the national feeling well, who said, "If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation." The writer of national songs, therefore, confers a benefit upon... | |
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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. 
