 | DONALD MACLEOD, D.D - 1876 - 982 pages
...here ; yet even in this connection, Fletcher of Saltoun's famous saying about " a very wise man " who believed that " if a man were permitted to make all...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 very... | |
 | 1876 - 918 pages
...here ; yet even in this connection, Fletcher of Saltoun's famous saying about " a very wise man " who believed that " if a man were permitted to make all...need not care who should make the laws of a nation," had more of profound truth and torce in it than may be generally believed. Some comparatively very... | |
 | Thomas Percy, Henry Benjamin Wheatley - Ballads, English - 1876 - 572 pages
...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 its own ballads,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1876 - 576 pages
...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, popular,... | |
 | 1877 - 800 pages
...that quaint phrase of Andrew Fletcher, who, in a letter to the Marquis of Montrose, remarked, that he knew a very wise man that believed that, if a man...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 become a part... | |
 | Queensland. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1917 - 794 pages
...association well worth promoting is the appreciation and enjoyment of the songs of the Old Lands. ' ' I know a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted...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 often quoted... | |
 | Music - 1877 - 896 pages
...sung in every corner of the streets." Hereupon Fletcher of Saltoun said he knew a very wise person who believed that : " If a man were permitted to make...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." We have all heard these words quoted — or misquoted — times innumerable, and there can be no doubt... | |
 | William Harrison - Isle of Man - 1877 - 168 pages
...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 far of a different... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - Quotations, English - 1878 - 360 pages
...hedge-rows, in the leafy lanes and by-paths of literature, in the genial summer-time. — LONGFELLOW. — I knew a very wise man that believed that, if a man...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. Ballads. —And tell prose writers, stories are so stale, That penny BALLADS have a better sale. BRETON,... | |
 | George Stewart - American essays - 1878 - 272 pages
...Andrew Fletcher, who, in a letter to the Marquis of Montrose, remarked, that he knew a very wise man who believed that if a man were permitted to make all...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 become a part... | |
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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. 
