 | 1850 - 524 Seiten
...he adds : " I said, 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. And we find that most of the ancient legislators thought they could not well reform the manners of... | |
 | 1879 - 566 Seiten
...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 m&ketiv laws of a nation." I should like to know if tie belief here attributed to "a very wise man... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 Seiten
...infamous ballads sung in every corner of the streets. I knew," he adds, " a very wise man that believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. And we find that most of the ancient legislators thought they could not well reform the manners of... | |
 | 1855 - 528 Seiten
...whig author in the early part of the 18th century, says, — 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. t Act ii. Sc. 2, 81. themselves to us, without any other purpose than to let us know they despise us.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 Seiten
...a Letter to the Marquis of Montrose, the Earl of Bathes, etc. 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. HENRY ST. JOHN, VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE. 1672-1751. On the Study and Use of History. Letter 2 I have read... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 Seiten
...infamous ballads sung in every corner of the streets. I knew." he adds, "a very wise man that believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. And we find that most of the ancient legislators thought they could not well reform the manners of... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1858 - 796 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1858 - 574 Seiten
...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... | |
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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 nation. 
