...writes — " 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." This may be rudely paraphrased, that it is more important to make the songs of a nation than to frame...

...great consequence. I said, 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. And we find that most of the antient legislators thought they could not well reform the manners of...

...hours to strengthening or exhilarating strains. A wise friend of Fletcher of Saltoun remarked that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. In a manner somewhat similar, one might assert that the chronicles of a nation, or a community, are...

...transactions (Fisher, 1984). Gerbner often quotes Scottish patriot Andrew Fletcher's observation that "If a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...not care who should make the laws of a nation." Such a romantic notion is not easily testable, but that makes it no less compelling. The stories of a culture...

...a letter to the marquis of Montrose, the earl of Rothes, "I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Today it's television that makes "all the ballads." It comes into the home where the child is born....

...théâtre 31 May 1913 Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun ifSss 1716 Scottish patriot anil anti-Unionist 22 Ifa man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation. 'An Account of a Conversation concerning a Right Regulation of Government for the Good of Mankind....

...for his arguing against the 1707 Act of Union) who wrote that he "knew a very wise man [who] believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation"."6 There is talk now of having the new Scottish Parliament's interior carved with a selection...

...legislators of the world, proclaims Shelley,6 which is well known and many instances are recorded: If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation,* saith one, knowing the power of song; and in this spirit Lycurgus, the Lawgiver of Lacedaemon, sent...

...legislators of the world, proclaims Shelley,6 which is well known and many instances are recorded: If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation,3 saith one, knowing the power of song; and in this spirit Lycurgus, the Lawgiver of Lacedaemon,...

...reads in full: 'I said, 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.'38 Fletcher's acquaintance's determination of song here suggests more that it potentially makes...