...exercise of a provident care, an anxious, if not a timid circumspection ? It was a saying of Fletcher, " let me make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws." There has been an age, when the declaration would not have been an exaggerated one. Without...

...fighting — work up their own cotton and chew their own tobacco." "Very well, sir; very well. Somebody has said, Let me make the songs of a people and I care not who makes their laws. That was said of the days when nearly all a nation's literature was contained in its ballads....

...enthusiasm of action ? How often we have assented to the acuteness of the remark by a great man — ' Let me make the Songs of a people, and I care not who makes the Laws.' Yet we sadly err in leaving the practical value of the admission to the mere drift of habit...

...remark. The history of civilization, of nations, and mdeed of every individual, serves to confirm it. " Let me make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes its laws," was a saying which recognized the universal supremacy of feeling and sentiment— the true springs...

...MAGAZINE LITERATURE. WE have often heard quoted of late the maxim of a certain political philosopher, who said : " let me make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes its laws." This may be true when applied to a people whose standard of civilization obliges them to embody and utter...

...one, whose identity has quite passed from our memory into his saying, once offered the sentiment, " Let me make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws." It strikes the reader of Mr. I,ea's book that this sage, having his wish, would certainly...

...into the ears, in a sweet and measured utterance that enchains the attention and enchants the heart. " Let me make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws," said a celebrated statesman. • The songs, by their daily repetition, live in the mind...

...the ears, in a sweet and measured utterance that enchaîne the attention and enchants the heart. " Let me make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws," said a celebrated statesman. The songs, by their daily repetition, live ia the mind and...

...for the most part, sensuous or formal. But still I cannot forget the saying of a wise man, — • " Let me make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws." A sound Gospel sermon, if drowsily delivered, might have sent three-fourths of the congregation...

...one, whose identity has quite passed from our memory into his saying, once offered the sentiment, " Let me make the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws." It strikes the reader of Mr. Lea's book that this sage, having his wish, would certainly...