 | Samuel Spenser Wallian - 1906 - 240 lapas
...extended digression more than pardonable. The epileptic emperor who sensationally exclaimedr "Let me make the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws," had his aptness in physiology and histology been equal to his genius for statecraft and military intrigue,... | |
 | 1912 - 560 lapas
...happily. Solve the play problem and you have the key to many other perplexing rural problems. Some one has said: "Let me write the songs of a nation and I care not who makes the laws." That might well be made to read — "Let me teach the people of a nation to play, and I... | |
 | Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) - 1907 - 294 lapas
...matter, but as I introduce this worthy and upright judge I am reminded of the- old proverb, "Let me make the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws." I don't know that Judge Sutherland is the author or the hero — exactly — of any song; yet however... | |
 | Daniel Bloomfield - 1910 - 118 lapas
...Grave rave. 16. Stop top. 17. Swell well. 18. Strain train — rain. 19. Score core — ore. No. 20 "Let me write the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws." No. 21 "He plays without taking a rest, sir." No. 22 "Nay, for this 'cello heaven sent a Brahms." No.... | |
 | Louis Charles Elson - 1912 - 430 lapas
...nation is surely a noble ambition ; for vital truth and philosophy underlie the saying, "Let me but write the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." II. THE EVOLUTION OF THE ORCHESTRA Long Ages of Development — Instruments of Savage Peoples — Of... | |
 | Percival Chubb - 1912 - 484 lapas
...impressions of the festival can be fixed firmly. Such truth as there is in the old saying "Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws," has particular application to the feeling of patriotism. The music of a country is, to a large extent,... | |
 | James Keegan O'Connor - 1913 - 218 lapas
...varying style, several men uttered the sentiment which has most recently crystallized into this form: "Let me write the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." Possibly it was because our race was so prolific with writers of songs, ballads and national hymns,... | |
 | John William Horsley - 1913 - 328 lapas
...By popular proverbs current in trade we can discover what that level is. It was said, " Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." But songs are too long to learn and to quote. Pregnant and pithy proverbs are more powerful for good... | |
 | 1914 - 850 lapas
...because of the opportunity it affords for the arousing of patriotic emotions. Someone has said that, "Let me write the songs of a nation and I care not who makes her laws." You, doubtless, remember the legend that when Sparta was hard pressed by her enemies, upon... | |
 | 1915 - 1710 lapas
...in the New World, singing of country, and home, and mother, and God. Richard of Saltonn said, "Lot me write the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws." Sing the songs of the country whose blood you bring to America and you will help make the laws that... | |
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Give me the making of the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws. 
