...progress of Roman Catholicity in this country. It was once said by an acute observer of human nature, " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." We might say also, Give us the externals of a nation's worship, and we will tell you its religion....

...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....

...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...

...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 lorce in it ihan may be generally believed. Some comparatively very...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...