 | Samuel Waddington - 1883 - 354 pages
...was not unwisely written by Andrew Fletcher, of Saltoun, in a letter to the Marquis of Montrose, *' B that 'if a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...not care who should make the laws of a nation.' The influence of the poetry of Robert Burns in forming and colouring the opinions and characters of his... | |
 | Augusta Jane Wilson - 1883 - 396 pages
...felicitously applied to Beranger, but which was first quoted, I believe, by Fletcher of Saltoun : ' If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation.' Oh ! what a sunset ! I never saw anything from Fiesole comparable to that." The sun had gone down below... | |
 | William Mackay - 1883 - 302 pages
...ashamed to repeat that oft-quoted and misquoted line of Andrew Fletcher, of Saltoun, in which he says, " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." I had always felt the force of this sage observation, and saw that in no way was political sentiment... | |
 | 1890 - 746 pages
...189o VOL. II. No. 5. OUR NATIONAL SONGS. By Mary LD Ferris. T was sturdy Andrew Fletcher who wrote, " I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man...not care who should make the laws of a ' nation." It would be interesting to know how many free-born Americans can repeat all, or even one, of our national... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1884 - 694 pages
...feelings and conditions of a state. This is very much the idea of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun:— " I knew a very wise man that believed that, if a man...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." MEN ARE IMITATOP.S OF THOSE AROVE THEM. Thou mayst plainly see that such as the chief men of the state... | |
 | James McQuade - 1884 - 572 pages
...to each other indissolubly. Andrew Fletcher, of Saltoun, said, a couple of centuries ago, that he " knew a very wise man that believed that, if a man...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Ballads do not come from prosperity ; they are not born amid the dazzle and glitter of wealth, the... | |
 | 1899 - 870 pages
...a very wise man," wrote I Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, long •*• ago, to the Marquis of Montrose, "that believed that if a man were permitted to make...not care who should make the laws, of a nation." The rare privilege of making a nation's songs is given to no one man. Often it is granted to those who... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1885 - 568 pages
...1. 25). 1. 29. took with the people. Cf. the well-worn saying of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun : — ' I knew a very wise man that believed, that if a Man...need not care who should make the laws, of a nation.' P. 361, 1. 6. the natural description of an innocent young woman. See Heautontimorumenos, Act ii, Sc.... | |
 | Cyril L. C. Locke - 1885 - 114 pages
...likewise variable. 58. War 'sa game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. 59. I knew a wise man that believed, that if a man were permitted...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. 60. I believe there is no real greatness for a nation Except it be based upon morality. 61. Talk not... | |
 | 1886 - 484 pages
...Fletcher, of Saltoun, in a letter to the Marquis of Montrose early in the eighteenth century, said: "I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." If this often-quoted judgment be true as the influence of one class of lyrical poetry upon the life... | |
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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! 
