...progress of Roman Catholicity in this country. It was once said by an acute observer of human nature, " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." We might say also, Give us the externals of a nation's worship, and we will tell you its religion....

...will both agree to unplume themselves, that others may be decorated with their feathers. FEI.LTHAM. I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man...need not care who should make the laws, of a nation. FLETCHER OF SALTOUN. By the original law of nations, war and extirpation were the punishment of injury....

...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 lorce in it ihan may be generally believed. Some comparatively very...

...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 torce in it than may be generally believed. Some comparatively very...

...of Saltoun wrote, " 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," he referred to the popular songs of the people, but, in point of fact, a nation makes its own ballads,...

...Anne. His writings were chiefly in the form of political tracts. He is the author of the saying, " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Mits. MANLEY (1724), in the reign of Anne, was a dramatist, novelist, ami political writer, popular,...

...that quaint phrase of Andrew Fletcher, who, in a letter to the Marquis of Montrose, remarked, that he knew a very wise man that believed that, if a man...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...

...association well worth promoting is the appreciation and enjoyment of the songs of the Old Lands. ' ' I know a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." (Andrew Fletcher, of Saltoun, in a letter to the Marquis of Montrose.) This saying is often quoted...

...sung in every corner of the streets." Hereupon Fletcher of Saltoun said he knew a very wise person who believed that : " If a man were permitted to make...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." We have all heard these words quoted — or misquoted — times innumerable, and there can be no doubt...

...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...