Sir Andrew Fletcher, of Saltoun, tells us the opinion of 'a very wise man,' that 'if a man were permitted to make all the ballads of a nation, he need not care who should make its laws. The She King - ˹éÒ 131876 - 431 ˹éÒÁØÁÁͧ·Ñé§àÅèÁ - à¡ÕèÂǡѺ˹ѧÊ×ÍàÅèÁ¹Õé
| 1857 - 754 ˹éÒ
...Fletcher of Saltoun, we believe, who knew of " a very wise person," as he called him, whose opinion it was that, " if a man were permitted to make all the ballads of a nation, he need not care who should make the laws." Now if such is the high value of songs and ballads, if such the influence they exercise,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1867 - 606 ˹éÒ
...Trafalgar Square ,, 1867. ANDREW FLETCHER of Saltoun once said 'he knew a wise friend who believed that if a man were permitted to make all the Ballads of a nation, he need not care who should make the laws.'* Ingenious M. Meusnier de Querlon, too, once seriously projected the writing of the history... | |
| James Legge - 1871 - 526 ˹éÒ
...which the kingdom was composed. 2. Sir Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun tells us the opinion of 'a very Avise man,' that 'if a man were permitted to make all the ballads of of a nation, he need not care who should make its laws.'1 The theory of Chinese scholars is that it... | |
| 1879 - 592 ˹éÒ
...female sex is enormous. " Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun once said ' he knew a wise friend who believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads of a nation he need not care who should make the laws.' " * It might be said of the present age that the power of controlling thought is passing... | |
| James Legge - 1876 - 452 ˹éÒ
...first Part embraces only a por- £ 8 fiS ec ^ tion of the States of which the kingdom was ^Mon now'to Composed. incomplete? 2. Sir Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun...of a nation, he need not care who should make its laws." 1 The theory of Chinese scholars is, that it was the duty of the kings to make themselves acquainted... | |
| Sir Spencer Walpole - 1878 - 680 ˹éÒ
...female sex is enormous. ' Andrew Fletcher of Saltoui1 once said " he knew a wise friend who believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads of a nation he need not care who should make the laws." ' 1 It might be said of the present age that the power of controlling thought is passing... | |
| 1879 - 574 ˹éÒ
...concerning ' a Right Regulation of Governments for the Common Good of Mankind' (Edinburgh, 1704), p. 10, Sir Andrew Fletcher, of Saltoun, tells us the opinion...of a nation, he need not care who should make its laws.' A writer in the Spectator, no. 502, refers to a similar opinion as having been entertained in... | |
| Sir Spencer Walpole - 1879 - 786 ˹éÒ
...female sex is enormous. ' Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun once said " he knew a wise friend who believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads of a nation he need not care who should make the laws." ' l It might be said of the present age that the power of controlling thought is passing... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - 1880 - 288 ˹éÒ
...influence of lyric poetry is well expressed in that oft-quoted sentence of Sir Andrew Fletcher's, " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads of a nation, he need not care who should make its laws." For out of the very songs that we sing there steals an influence that enters into us, and does... | |
| 1899 - 708 ˹éÒ
...Fletcher, a Scottish writer of the seventeenth century, said he "knew a very wise man who believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads of a nation he need not care who made the laws." The power of inspiration and of national unity exerted by the great national epics,... | |
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