...style of music, he averred, could upset a state. The poet Fletcher is often quoted to the same effect: "If a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Happily, nothing is as simple as this. Yet music, drama, and art, whether high or low, make one feel...

...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...

...leisure 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,...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...

...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...

...(1653-1716) wrote in 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...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....

...story-telling transactions (Fisher, 1984). Gerbner often quotes Scottish patriot Andrew Fletcher's observation that "If a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need 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...

...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...

...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...