...struck against his impressible life. Andrew Fletcher said, " 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." If that wise man were alive to-day in this country of schools, his belief...

...•ong with a political point to the tune 'The hunt is up.' 'If a man,' says Fletcher of Saltoun, ' were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.' • Lilliburlero' (beloved of my uncle Toby), is a striking proof of the...

...that others may be decorated with their feathers. FELLTHAM. I knew a very wise man that believed that f our philosophers, with all their pomp of diction : how contemptible are th make the laws, of a nation. FLETCHER OF SALTOUN. By the original law of nations, war and extirpation...

...1871 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. NATIONAL AND PATRIOTIC SONGS. " I 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." — Andrew Fletcher. HAIL COLUMBIA. BY JOSEPH HOPKINSON. The author of...

...to come down to meaner things." Said Andrew Fletcher, "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 the nation." This certainly was placing a very high, but perhaps not a much too high,...

...familiar, but generally misquoted, passage that follows : — " 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." " Government is founded upon compromise and barter, All." — BURKE' s...

...bard, of the Southeys for their hearts, anil the Moores for their verse. Fletcher of Saltoun said, "If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make all the laws of a nation." The character of a people is preserved in their national songs. "God...

...history; and perhaps Fletcher of Saltoun (1655-1716) was thinking on these lines when he observed that 'if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation'. In fact the laws of a nation have often been put into verse, mainly no...

...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, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation." We have gone from ballads to headlines and histories, but the interpreters...

...11 What Andrew Fletcher of 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...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...