 | Questions and answers - 1850 - 544 pages
...adds : " I said, I knew a very wise j 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 not well reform the manners of... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1850 - 524 pages
...he adds : " 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 not well reform the manners of... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...quoted, and 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 newspapers may be said to have supplanted the ballads ; yet during the late war between England... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1851 - 332 pages
...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 not well reform the manners of... | |
 | 1855 - 518 pages
...Saltoun, a famous 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...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, without any other purpose than to... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...FLETCHER OF SALTOUN. 1653-1716. From a Letter to the Marquis of Montrose, the Earl of Bathes, etc. I knew a very wise man that believed that, if a man...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. HENRY ST. JOHN, VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE. 1672-1751. On the Study and Use of History. Letter 2 I have read... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 pages
...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 not well reform the manners of... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...quoted, and 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 newspapers may be said to have supplanted the ballads ; yet during the late war between England... | |
 | England - 1858 - 796 pages
...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 accurately, perhaps, as on the present... | |
 | 1861 - 624 pages
...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,...need not care who should make the 'laws of a nation.' But the adage, with all its smartness, is a very deceitful one. A curious essay might be written to... | |
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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. 
