 | 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... | |
 | James De Mille - English language - 1878 - 584 pages
...truth that gives point to the celebrated saying of Fletcher of Saltoun : " I 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." Didactic poetry shows the same purpose ; as in Young's Night Thoughts, Thomson's Seasons, Cowper's... | |
 | Education - 1879 - 480 pages
...every principle, every sentiment that has struck against his impressible life. Andrew Fletcher said, " I knew a very wise man that believed that, if a man...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." If that wise man were alive to-day in this country of schools, his belief would certainly be, that... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...which has been — by Lord Brougham and others — erroneously ascribed to the Earl of Chatham : ' I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man...need not care who should make the laws of a nation.' The newspaper may now be said to have supplanted the ballad ; yet, during the war with France, the... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 pages
...letter that Fletcher makes use of the familiar, but generally misquoted, passage that follows : — " I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." " Government is founded upon compromise and barter, All." — BURKE' s Speech on Conciliation with... | |
 | James M. Trotter - African American composers - 1878 - 560 pages
...heaven at once, and that it is almost sacrilege to come down to meaner things." Said Andrew Fletcher, "I knew a very wise man that believed, that, if a...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 too high, estimate on the... | |
 | George Henry Preble - Flags - 1880 - 892 pages
...47. 48. 49. 1871 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. NATIONAL AND PATRIOTIC SONGS. " I 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." — Andrew Fletcher. HAIL COLUMBIA. BY JOSEPH HOPKINSON. The author of this lyric was the Hon. Joseph... | |
 | Juliana Horatia Ewing - Adventure stories - 1881 - 370 pages
...we've a bit of 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...make the laws of a nation." — Fletcher of Saltoun in a letter to the Marquis of Montrose. THE weather was fair enough, and we went along very steadily... | |
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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. 
