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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. "
A Reply to the Essay on Population: By the Rev. T. R. Malthus. In a Series ... - Page 210
de William Hazlitt - 1807 - 378 pages
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The Political Works of Andrew Fletcher, Esq

Andrew Fletcher - 1732 - 492 pages
...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...
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The Political Works of Andrew Fletcher ...

Andrew Fletcher - 1732 - 474 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 could...
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Political Disquisitions; Or, An Enquiry Into Public Errors, Defects, and ...

James Burgh - 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...he need not care who made the laws of a nation. The antient Jegiflators did not pretend to reform the manners or the people without the help of the poets*.'...
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London Review of English and Foreign Literature, Volume 2

1776 - 646 pages
...defence of the ñato, to ¡licv. » 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 of the...
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An Historical Rhapsody on Mr. Pope

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...
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A Reply to the Essay on Population: By the Rev. T. R. Malthus. In a Series ...

William Hazlitt - 1807 - 386 pages
...return, however, we have learned to converse, to dress, and dance better than we used to do. 221 " At Sparta, the poets could not publish any " thing...ancient le" gislators did not pretend to reform the man" hers of the people without the help of the « poets." " The grave Romans did not allow a person " of...
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A Reply to the Essay on Population: By the Rev. T. R. Malthus. In a Series ...

William Hazlitt - 1807 - 386 pages
...return, however, we have learned to converse, to dress, and dance better than we used to do. eft " At Sparta, the poets could not publish any " thing...he need not care who " made the laws of a nation. The-encient le" gislators did not pretend to reform the nran" ners of the people without the help of...
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An Account of the American Antiquarian Society, Incorporated, Oct. 24, 1812 ...

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...
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The pocket encyclopedia of Scottish, English, and Irish songs ..., Volume 1

Scottish songs - 1816 - 378 pages
...for bis profound wisdom and exalted independence, 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 lav, s, of a nation." This remark is undoubtedly expressive of the author's conviction,...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 84

1858 - 862 pages
...no great consequence." 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." Such are the circumstances under which this aphorism was uttered...
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