 | 1904 - 630 str.
...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 dea'thless save those of the world's singers. — FRANCES E. WILLARD.... | |
 | D. Stuart Dodge - 1887 - 442 str.
...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... | |
 | Denys Thompson - 1978 - 252 str.
...their 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,...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 doubt because they were thus... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence - 1983 - 138 str.
...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 - 268 str.
...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 - 336 str.
...often-quoted and always misquoted saying of a stout Scotch republican of two centuries ago, Andrew Fletcher: " I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man...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... | |
 | William Stephenson - 252 str.
...style of music, he averred, could upset a state. The poet Fletcher is often quoted to the same effect: "If a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Happily, nothing is as simple as this. Yet music, drama, and art, whether high or low, make one feel... | |
 | 1897 - 672 str.
...writes — " 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." This may be rudely paraphrased, that it is more important to make the songs of a nation than to frame... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - 1924 - 734 str.
...leisure hours to strengthening or exhilarating strains. A wise friend of Fletcher of Saltoun remarked that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. In a manner somewhat similar, one might assert that the chronicles of a nation, or a community, are... | |
 | Andrew Fletcher - 1997 - 304 str.
...great consequence. I said, 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. And we find that most of the antient legislators thought they could not well reform the manners of... | |
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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! 
