...people without power to meet any great crisis or achieve any great deed. Fletcher of Saltoun's saying, " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws, of a nation," expresses a profound truth, because the songs which create as well as express the emotions make the...

...the earl of Cromarty, "I knew a very wise man of Sir Christopher Musjfravo's sentiment, id- believed, if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws." (1703.) Ballet is the recital of some adventure or intrigue by gesture and dancing. Baltazari'ni, director...

...character. We have all heard of the wise man, quoted by Fletcher, of Saltoun, to the effect " that if he was permitted to make all the ballads he need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Much more true is it that if you be informed what is the religion of a nation, you can with certainty...

...curoe." IIIORACK, Oar., lib. Iv.-car. xi. I knew я very wise man, that believed that ¡fa man wert- permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make tin- laws of a nation. [AXDKEW FLETCHER. Albany : Joel Munsell. 1819. 8vo. pp. 69. . The members of...

...political tracts. He is the author of the saying, " If a man were permitted to make all the t.Killud*, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation." MBS. MANLET (1724), in the reign of Anne, was a dramatist, novelist, and political writer, popular,...

...him his best hold on the memory of modern times. He writes : " I knew 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." If this should be thought to be exaggeration, it will not be doubted that national songs, in some degree,...

...ballads : — " I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Christopher Musgraves sentiments, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the songs of a nation. ... In this city the dramatic poet no less than the ballad maker has been almost...

...given him his best hold on the memory of modern times. He writes: "I knew 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." If this should be thought to be exaggeration, it will not be doubted that national songs, in some degree,...

...1653—1716), said, in a letter to the Marquis of Hontrose, " 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." Hence, although P.'s precept was primarily directed to the praise and worship of God ; there can be...

...primarily, the cultivation of the memory. I quite agree with Fletcher in thinking him a wise man who said " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. " There is, in the saying, a great deal of philosophy worth our attention. I would not, however, be...