 | 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 918
...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 the ballads,...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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 768
...themselves, that others may be decorated with their feathers. FEI.LTHAM. I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...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.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 576
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Percy, Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 572
...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,... | |
 | Democratic National Committee (U.S.) - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 764
...studied nor cared to comprehend, nor to have understood the gentle wisdom of Fletcher of Saltoun : ' f That if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who shoulH make the laws of a people." He never gained their respect; but, by his self-seeking, his self-promotion... | |
 | 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 800
...Fletcher, who, in a letter to the Marquis of Montrose, remarked, that he knew a very wise man that believed that, if a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...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... | |
 | 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 896
...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 all the ballads,...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence - 1983 - عدد الصفحات: 138
...And history is the basis of myth in modern life. Nearly three hundred years ago Andrew Fletcher said, "If a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." We have gone from ballads to headlines and histories, but the interpreters of our past still affect... | |
 | Edwin M. Eigner, George J. Worth - 1985 - عدد الصفحات: 272
...Saltoun actually wrote was: '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 ration'; An Account of a Conversation concerning a Right Regulation of Governments for the Common Good... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1904 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...stout Scotch republican of two centuries ago, Andrew Fletcher: " I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Indeed, who is there among us that can repeat the language of any law? and who that cannot repeat multitudes... | |
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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. 
