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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! "
The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland - Page 236
by Abraham Mills - 1851
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Bizarre; Notes and Queries; a Monthly Magazine of History, Folk ..., Volumes 3-4

1886 - 580 pages
...They were : " I said 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, and we find that most of the ancient legislators thought that they could not well reform the manners...
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic ..., Volume 1

Thomas Percy - 1886 - 566 pages
...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,...
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Genius in Sunshine and Shadow

Maturin Murray Ballou - 1886 - 328 pages
...songs for pennies, accompanied upon the violin by her brother. 1 I knew a very wise man that believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. — Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun. Her attitudes, gestures, and voice always captivated a crowd of people....
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Proceedings at the Unveiling of the Statue of William E. Dodge: Erected ...

New York Chamber of Commerce - 1886 - 64 pages
...the subtler forces of history that led Andrew Fletcher, or some other wise man, to say that if one were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation. He might have added, " Let me put up the statues, and I care not who write the biographies." Most biographies...
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The Western Antiquary, Volume 6

William Henry Kearley Wright - 1887 - 388 pages
...of the day. Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun mentions in one of his works, the instance of a person who " believed that if a man were permitted to make all...need not care who should make the laws of a nation"* — a passage that has been frequently quoted to exemplify the great power ballads exercised over the...
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The Western Antiquary, Volume 6

William Henry Kearley Wright - 1887 - 454 pages
...of the day. Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun mentions in one of his works, the instance of a person who " believed that if a man were permitted to make all...need not care who should make the laws of a nation"* — a passage that has been frequently quoted to exemplify the great power ballads exercised over the...
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The Broadside Ballads of Devonshire and Cornwall: With Notes as to Their ...

Thomas Nadauld Brushfield - 1887 - 32 pages
...of the day. Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun mentions in one of his works, the instance of a person who " believed that if a man were permitted to make all...need not care who should make the laws of a. nation"* — a passage that has been frequently quoted to exemplify the great power ballads exercised over the...
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American State Constitutions: A Study of Their Growth

Henry Hitchcock - 1887 - 74 pages
...Association : That saying of Andrew Fletcher, of Saltoun, two centuries ago, is still sometimes quoted : " That if a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Whether this be not an extravagant statement, we need not now inquire. It may be conceded that the...
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Ohio Archæological and Historical Quarterly, Volume 13

1904 - 612 pages
...occupancy by them, ceased forever to be the home of the Indian. SONG WRITERS OF OHIO. CB GALBREATH. If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. — ANDREW FLETCHER. No names are deathless save those of the world's singers. — FRANCES E. WILLARD....
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Victorian Poets, Volume 1

Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1887 - 566 pages
...rhymes are poor indeed ; but they fairly belong to that class of which Fletcher of Saltoun wrote : "If a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Here, too, we may say a word of a contemporary tribe of English democratic poets, many of them springing...
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