...Brougham and others, erroneously ascribed to the Earl of Chatham : ' 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! The newspapers may be said to have supplanted the ballads ; yet during the late war between England...

...Мизэтгм, EDINBURGH, Stptmber, 1858. [Ott. ТНК 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...

...bard, of the Southeys for their hearts, and 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 save...

...celebrated saying erroneously attributed to the earl of Chatham : "I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he did not care who should make all the laws of a nation." matics, and botany. At the age of thirty he...

...interlocutor in his Account of a Conversation concerning a Right Regulation of Government) ' that he believed, if a man were permitted to ' make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the 'laws of a nation.' But the adage, with all its smartness, is a very deceitful one. A curious essay might be written to...

...interlocutor in his Account of a Conversation concerning a Right Regulation of Government) ' that he believed, if a man were permitted to ' make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the ' lawa of a nation.' But the adage, with all its smartness, is a very deceitful one. A curious essay...

...in the poetry of America. " I knew," wrote old Fletcher of Saltoun, " 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." If this be true, neither Whittier nor his friends need doubt much the result of their labors, as the...

...song excites the patriotic sentiment. He was a wise man, and knew the national feeling well, who said, "If a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." The writer of national songs, therefore, confers a benefit upon his country, and a debt of gratitude...

...Andronicus. Ad. fin. 1. ANDREW FLETCHER OF SALTOUN. 1653-1716. 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. Letter to the Marquis of Montrose, the Earl of Bathes, etc. ISAAC NEWTON. 1642-1727. I seem to have...

...speakers were particularly prone to the quotation of that strange saying of Fletcher of Saltoun — " If a man were permitted to make all the Ballads, he need not care who should make the Laws of a country." It has been the destiny of Young Ireland to make and to administer the laws of other countries...