 | James M. Trotter - 1878 - 560 страници
...to come down to meaner things." Said 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 the nation." This certainly was placing a very high, but perhaps not a much... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 страници
...that others may be decorated with their feathers. FELLTHAM. I knew a very wise man that believed that f our philosophers, with all their pomp of diction : how contemptible should make the laws, of a nation. FLETCHER OF SALTOUN. By the original law of nations, war and extirpation... | |
 | Juliana Horatia Ewing - 1881 - 370 страници
...holiday leesure 111 tell ye some." " Thank you, Alister." CHAPTER XX. " A very wise man 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.... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1881 - 372 страници
...sentiments and customs? Andrew Fletcher, called Fletcher of Saltoun, two centuries ago affirmed that "if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Even so judicious a writer as Polybius says that music was necessary... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1881 - 372 страници
...sentiments and customs ? Andrew Fletcher, called Fletcher of Saltoun, two centuries ago affirmed that "if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Even so judicious a writer as Polybius says that music was necessary... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 946 страници
...bard, of the Southeys for their hearts, anil 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.... | |
 | 1882 - 308 страници
...were of no great consequence. 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 need not care who should make the laws of a nation. And we find that most of the ancient legislators thought they could... | |
 | 1882 - 328 страници
...were of no great consequence. 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 need not care who should make the laws of a nation. And we find that most of the ancient legislators thought they could... | |
 | Denys Thompson - 1978 - 252 страници
...history; and perhaps Fletcher of Saltoun (1655-1716) was thinking on these lines when he observed that 'if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation'. In fact the laws of a nation have often been put into verse, mainly... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence - 1983 - 138 страници
...And history is the basis of myth in modern life. Nearly three hundred years ago Andrew Fletcher said, "If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation." We have gone from ballads to headlines and histories, but the interpreters... | |
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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. 
