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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 New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A ... - Page 264
1907
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Four Discourses on Subjects Relating to the Amusement of the Stage: Preached ...

James Plumptre - Theater - 1809 - 318 pages
...IX.) I have, on a former occasion,* quoted the sentiments of ANDREW FLETCHER, of Saltoun, who says, "That most of the ancient legislators, thought they could not well reform the manners of anycity, without the help of a lyric and sometimes of a dramatic poet." See his Political Works, Lond....
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An Account of the American Antiquarian Society, Incorporated, Oct. 24, 1812 ...

American Antiquarian Society - 1813 - 322 pages
...Fletcher of Saltoun, that "he knew a very wise man who believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he 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...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 84

1858 - 862 pages
...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." Such are the circumstances under which this aphorism was uttered ; and they are not uninstructive in...
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The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an ..., Volume 10

Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 298 pages
...(«) ' I knew (says Mr. Fletcher) a very wise man who believed, that if a man were permitted lo make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.' (4) PS to Spectator, in folio. — There are in the play of the Self-Tormentor, of Terence, several...
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The Penny Cyclopędia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ..., Volume 3

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 566 pages
...Saltoun, speaks of a wise person whom he knew, ' who be lieved that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads he 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,...
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Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 17

Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1850 - 570 pages
...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...
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The Living Age, Volume 295

Literature - 1917 - 920 pages
...British Army by the study of its songs. The man who first said: "If a man were permitted to make ali the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation," would be sore puzzled by our soldiers. No nation has given birth to greater poets than the On Reading...
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Reports of Committees: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 48th ..., Volume 3, Part 3

United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1184 pages
...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,...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1888 - 662 pages
...Hawthornden, ii supposed to Ьате known a man who " believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he 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...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1856 - 568 pages
...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." See " N. A Q." 1" S. i. 124. 153.] N. Byficld. — I have a small volume, title-page wanting, with...
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