...the famous phrase of the wise man, whom he does not name, ( and which has grown into a proverb : ) " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation," * he indicated the necessity for that appreciation of, and sympathy with, the domestic life of a people...

...to him, played some English airs, which made him weep like a child. 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 brilliant, but profligate, Sheridan having lived in an age where its...

...British Army by the study of its songs. The man who first said: "If a man were permitted to make ali the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation," would be sore puzzled by our soldiers. No nation has given birth to greater poets than the On Reading...

...to him, played some English airs, which made him weep like a child. 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 brilliant, but profligate, Sheridan having lived in an age where its...

...OF THE PEOPLE. BY W. LANDLESS. Fi.ETcnr.n of Saltoun, in his ' Conversations on Government,' said, ' If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make all the laws of the nation.' There is contained in these few simple words a very profound truth, which,...

...studied nor cared to comprehend, nor to have understood the gentle wisdom of Fletcher of Saltoun — "That if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a people." He never gained their respect; bat, by his self-seeking, his self-promotion to power and place,...

...to him, played some English airs, which made him weep like a child. Fletcher, of Saltoun, said : " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not cnre who should make all the laws of a nation." Tl.e brilliant, but profligate, Sheridan having lived...

...Fletcher of Saltoun, rather than Drummond of Hawthornden, ii supposed to Ьате known a man who " believed that if a man were permitted to make all...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Much curious information is supplied in the various chapters on carols and wasiail songs, church ales...

...in these terms : " 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." I should like to know if the belief here attributed to " a very wise man " has been ascertained to...

...Quotations/ кпя edit. p. 281, quotes, from a letter to the Marquis of Montrose, etc., " I knew a verv wise man that believed that if a man were permitted...need not care who should make the laws of a nation."] AÜTHOBS WANTED.— 1. I would be greatly f* helped and obliged if the authorship of the following...