I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — '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. Notes and Queries - الصفحة 3161888عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...till he 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...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 - عدد الصفحات: 322
...a rich 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...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 - عدد الصفحات: 862
...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... | |
| 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 298
...502. («) ' 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... | |
| 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 566
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 570
...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... | |
| 1917 - عدد الصفحات: 920
...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... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - عدد الصفحات: 1184
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 662
...ballad«. Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, rather than Drummond of Hawthornden, ii supposed to Ьате known a man who " believed that if a man were permitted...is supplied in the various chapters on carols and wasiail songs, church ales and observances, Whitsun ales, harvest songs, drinking clubs and customs,... | |
| 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...he adds : " 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 they could not well reform the manners of... | |
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