 | Christopher Harvie - History - 2004 - 296 pages
...the eve of the Union, Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, fighting for the doomed Scottish parliament, wrote that 'if a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation.' Traditionally, nationalists have regarded Fletcher as the parent of Scottish democracy. The Saltire... | |
 | John Richetti - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 974 pages
...antiquarianism, scholarship and high literary culture ROBERT FOLKENFLIK Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun claimed that 'if a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation'.' At the beginning of the eighteenth century, then, at least one shrewd political observer recognised... | |
 | Matthew Gelbart - Music - 2007 - 265 pages
...The famous 1704 quote by Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, an opponent of the Act of Union with England - "I knew a very wise man . . . that . . . believed...need not care who should make the laws of a nation" - rings true because of the universal nature of balladry (quoted in Christopher Harvie, Scotland and... | |
 | Michael Alexander - History - 2007 - 348 pages
...the essay on ballads in the edition of Edward Walford (London, 1880), 18. The maxim also appears as, 'If a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...should make the laws of a nation.' Fletcher of Saltoun was author of An Account of a Conversation concerning a Right Regulation of Governments for the Common... | |
 | T. C. W. Blanning - History - 2007 - 764 pages
...vengeance, it is the oral tradition of nationalist ballads and epics that need to be examined, for 'if a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation', as the Scottish patriot Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1653?-1716) put it. That this is not an impossible... | |
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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. 
