 | Andrew Fletcher - England - 1732 - 476 pages
...laft were of no great confequence. I faid, I knew a very wife man fo much of Sir Chr — 's fentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who fliould make the laws of a nation. And we find that moft of the antient legiflators thought they could... | |
 | Andrew Fletcher - England - 1732 - 492 pages
...were of no great confequence. I faid, I knew a very wife man' fo much of Sir Chr — 's fentiment, that he , believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who fliould make the laws of a nation. And • we find that moft of the antient legiflators thought .they... | |
 | James Burgh - Great Britain - 1775 - 540 pages
...defence of the ftate, to {hews and plays, by which the people were enervated. t A very wife man faid, he believed, if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who made the laws of a nation. The antient Jegiflators did not pretend to reform the manners or the people... | |
 | Bibliography - 1776 - 648 pages
...defence of the ńato, to ˇlicv. » an! plays by which the people were enervated. ' A very wife man faid, he believed, if a man were permitted to * make all the. ballads, he need not care wh,o made thc laws of,.» « nation. The ancient legiflators did not pretend to reform the nain» 4 ners... | |
 | Thomas Tyers - 1782 - 168 pages
...interlocutors in Fletcher of Saltoun's cele' brated Converfation-piece, feems not to be quite a rant, that, " if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who mould make the laws of a nation ;" for manners controul laws. Though it has been faid of this opera... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Malthusianism - 1807 - 386 pages
...any " thing without a license ; and all immoral " writings were prohibited. A very wise man* " said he believed, if a man were permitted *' to make all the ballads, he need not care who " made the laws of a nation. The-encient le" gislators did not pretend to reform the nran" ners of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Malthusianism - 1807 - 386 pages
...any " thing without a license ; and all immoral " writings were prohibited. A very wise man* " said he believed, if a man were permitted ** to make all the ballads, he need not care who " made the laws of a nation. The ancient le" gislators did not pretend to reform the man" hers of the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Electronic book - 1807 - 392 pages
...any *' thing without a license ; and all immoral " writings were prohibited. A very wise man* " said he believed, if a man were permitted " to make all the ballads, he need not care who " made the laws of a nation. The ancient le" gislators did not pretend to reform the man" ners of ,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 348 pages
...that he was mistaken. No. 502. (a) " I knew (says Mr. Fletcher) a Very wise man who believed, that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." (b) PS to Spectator, in folio. — There are, in the play of the Self-Tormentor of Terence, several... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1813 - 322 pages
...recompense. The remark of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, that "he knew a very wise man who believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation," is familiar to all students of English literature. To whom in this remark, sometimes erroneously ascribed... | |
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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. 
