...truth that gives point to the celebrated saying of Fletcher of Saltoun : " I knew a very wise man who believed that, if a man were permitted to make all...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Didactic poetry shows the same purpose ; as in Young's Night Thoughts, Thomson's Seasons, Cowper's...

...which has been — by Lord Brougham and others — erroneously ascribed to the Earl of Chatham : ' I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man...need not care who should make the laws of a nation.' The newspaper may now be said to have supplanted the ballad ; yet, during the war with France, the...

...every principle, every sentiment that has struck against his impressible life. Andrew Fletcher said, " I knew a very wise man that believed that, if a man...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." If that wise man were alive to-day in this country of schools, his belief would certainly be, that...

...will both agree to unplume themselves, that others may be decorated with their feathers. FELLTHAM. I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man...injury. Humanizing by degrees, it admitted slavery instend of death : a further step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery. B. FRANKLIN. "...

...letter that Fletcher makes use of the familiar, but generally misquoted, passage that follows : — " I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." " Government is founded upon compromise and barter, All." — BURKE' s Speech on Conciliation with...

...heaven at once, and that it is almost sacrilege to come down to meaner things." Said Andrew Fletcher, "I knew a very wise man that believed, that, if a...ballads, he need not care who should make the laws, of the nation." This certainly was placing a very high, but perhaps not a much too high, estimate on the...

...47. 48. 49. 1871 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. NATIONAL AND PATRIOTIC SONGS. " I knew a very wise man, who believed that if a man were permitted to make all...need not care who should make the laws, of a nation." — Andrew Fletcher. HAIL COLUMBIA. BY JOSEPH HOPKINSON. The author of this lyric was the Hon. Joseph...

...we've a bit of holiday leesure 111 tell ye some." " Thank you, Alister." CHAPTER XX. " A very wise man believed that, if a man were permitted to make all...make the laws of a nation." — Fletcher of Saltoun in a letter to the Marquis of Montrose. THE weather was fair enough, and we went along very steadily...

...of sentiments and customs? Andrew Fletcher, called Fletcher of Saltoun, two centuries ago affirmed that "if a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Even so judicious a writer as Polybius says that music was necessary to soften the manners of the Arcadians,...

...of sentiments and customs ? Andrew Fletcher, called Fletcher of Saltoun, two centuries ago affirmed that "if a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Even so judicious a writer as Polybius says that music was necessary to soften the manners of the Arcadians,...