 | Mike Budd, Steve Craig, Clayton M. Steinman - Performing Arts - 1999 - 252 pages
...Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1653-1716) wrote in a letter to the marquis of Montrose, the earl of Rothes, "I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Today it's television that makes "all the ballads." It comes into the home where the child is born.... | |
 | James Shanahan, Michael Morgan - Performing Arts - 1999 - 286 pages
...story-telling transactions (Fisher, 1984). Gerbner often quotes Scottish patriot Andrew Fletcher's observation that "If a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Such a romantic notion is not easily testable, but that makes it no less compelling. The stories of... | |
 | Barbara Korte, Ralf Schneider, Stefanie Lethbridge - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 360 pages
...for his arguing against the 1707 Act of Union) who wrote that he "knew a very wise man [who] believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation"."6 There is talk now of having the new Scottish Parliament's interior carved with a selection... | |
 | Holbrook Jackson - Antiques & Collectibles - 2001 - 676 pages
...legislators of the world, proclaims Shelley,6 which is well known and many instances are recorded: If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation,* saith one, knowing the power of song; and in this spirit Lycurgus, the Lawgiver of Lacedaemon, sent... | |
 | Holbrook Jackson - Antiques & Collectibles - 2001 - 676 pages
...legislators of the world, proclaims Shelley,6 which is well known and many instances are recorded: If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation,3 saith one, knowing the power of song; and in this spirit Lycurgus, the Lawgiver of Lacedaemon,... | |
 | Harry White, Michael Murphy - History - 2001 - 310 pages
...reads in full: 'I said, 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.'38 Fletcher's acquaintance's determination of song here suggests more that it potentially makes... | |
 | Paul Henderson Scott - History - 2003 - 204 pages
...gethered here tae honour the day, Andra Fletcher o Saltoun, tae write: 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. He wes richt then, an he's been richt for gey near twa hunder an fifty year sinsyne. But I'm no shuir... | |
 | Paul Henderson Scott - National characteristics, Scottish - 2003 - 372 pages
...celebrated remark: I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Christopher's sentiments, 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 he continues: And we find that most of the ancient legislators thought they could not well reform... | |
 | Peter Blecha - Music - 2004 - 228 pages
...descend into the obscurity they deserve. CHAPTER ? Find the Cost of Freedom 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, 1 ?04 usic — considered as an artistic means of freely expressing ideas —... | |
 | Andrew King, John Plunkett - Popular literature - 2004 - 608 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 force in it than may be generally believed. Some comparatively very... | |
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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. 
