 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 348 pàgines
...had ocular proof that he was mistaken. No. 502. (a) " I knew (says Mr. Fletcher) 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." (b) PS to Spectator, in folio. — There are, in the play of the Self-Tormentor of Terence, several... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1813 - 322 pàgines
...and abiding recompense. The remark of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, 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," is familiar to all students of English literature. To whom in this remark, sometimes erroneously ascribed... | |
 | 1858 - 862 pàgines
...WILSON. INDUSTRIAL MDSEOH, EDINBUBOH, September 1858. THE 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... | |
 | 1835 - 566 pàgines
...proofs of this. Andrew Fletcher, о Saltoun, speaks of a wise person whom he knew, ' who be lieved that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. (Polit. Works, 8vo. p. 2C6. Glasg. 1749.) BALLAD, in music, a short air, repeated to two or mon stanzas,... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1850 - 570 pàgines
...the famous phrase of the wise man, whom he does not name, ( and which has grown into a proverb : ) " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation," * he indicated the necessity for that appreciation of, and sympathy with, the domestic life of a people... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1184 pàgines
...studied nor cared to comprehend, nor to have understood the gentle wisdom of Fletcher of Saltoun — "That if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a people." He never gained their respect; bat, by his self-seeking, his self-promotion to power and place,... | |
 | 1888 - 662 pàgines
...Fletcher of Saltoun, rather than Drummond of Hawthornden, ii supposed to Ьате known a man who " believed that if a man were permitted to make all...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Much curious information is supplied in the various chapters on carols and wasiail songs, church ales... | |
 | 1879 - 674 pàgines
...in these terms : " 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." I should like to know if the belief here attributed to " a very wise man " has been ascertained to... | |
 | 1925 - 996 pàgines
...Quotations/ кпя edit. p. 281, quotes, from a letter to the Marquis of Montrose, etc., " I knew a verv wise man that believed that if a man were permitted...need not care who should make the laws of a nation."] AÜTHOBS WANTED.— 1. I would be greatly f* helped and obliged if the authorship of the following... | |
 | 1888 - 558 pàgines
...Andrew Fletcher of Saltonn, ratber than Drummond of Hawtbornden, is supposed to hare known a man who " believed that if a man were permitted to make all...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. ' Much curious information ia aupplied in the various chapters on carols and wassail songs, church... | |
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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! 
