 | Michigan. Legislature - 1889 - 950 lapas
...classics of patriotism. Memory gems and patriotic songs may be made to serve the same purpose. It has been said, " Let me write the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws." And what country has moro inspiring songs than our "America," "The Star-Spangled Banner," "The Red,... | |
 | 1894 - 704 lapas
...the evil thoughts of one man, bringing out the evil deeds of another, or cramping the mind. That man who said 'let me write the songs of a Nation and I care not who makes the laws,' was wise; I believe if I could guide the reading of a boy or girl up toeighten it would... | |
 | George Claude Lorimer - 1890 - 80 lapas
...build constitutions and governments; poetry animates them with national spirit; hence a wise man has said, " Let me write the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." And on a battlefield a hymn or verse has done as much to secure victory as the most elaborate instructions... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, Henry Goddard Leach, George Henry Payne, D. G. Redmond - 1891 - 738 lapas
...instruction, important as they are, are not as important as works of inspiration. " Give me the man who makes the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." For "songs," read all the literature of feeling and living — not only poetry, but fiction and biography,... | |
 | Mary Alice Caller - 1892 - 234 lapas
...and mean as the subject upon which the mind dwells. It was an aphorism of Fletcher : " Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." Persons or a populace that find continued delight in such poetry and songs as " The mule stood on the... | |
 | 1895 - 676 lapas
...there will be seen to be reason for indorsing what Fletcher, of Scotland, more than two centuries ago said, ' ' Let me write the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." Truly, indeed, have the mountains reechoed the sound from side to side of this glorious hymn, and the... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting - 1898 - 1156 lapas
...school is to train the imagination, or foster the spirit of invention. Fletcher says : " Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." That a nation may produce makers of song, the spirit of music lying dormant in every child must be... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 494 lapas
...the rest of the natives, with great attention. CHARLES DIBDIN (1745-1814) IHE saying, "Let me make the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws," receives an interesting illustration in the sea songs of Charles Dibdin. They were written at a momentous... | |
 | 1895 - 696 lapas
...speaks of those things that will prove a joy forever. If we are right about it, it was Victor Hugo who said, "Let me write the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws." — New York School Journal. Was It Hugo, really? We have forgotten. Dr. Chas. McMurry's last book... | |
 | Charles Nelson Kent - 1898 - 356 lapas
...naturally be of more interest to the comrades serving in the organizations mentioned. " Let me but write the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws" is perhaps as great a tribute as was ever paid to the ballad singer or composer, by any writer, ancient... | |
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Give me the making of the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws. 
