 | Michael Patrick O'Connor - 1893 - 588 pages
...national melody, deserving to be classed among the songs of the nations. A great writer has said : " Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who may make their laws." Now, among these nations, Ireland — that most ancient and holy island on the... | |
 | Ferdinand Schureman Schenck - 1896 - 360 pages
...Song of Moses ; it appeals to that characteristic of human nature which gave ground for the saying, " Let me write the songs of a people and I care not who makes their laws." The imagery of the song is a mingling of Sinai and the plains of Moab. Nine times... | |
 | University of the State of New York - 1897 - 764 pages
...abstraction was again concreted ; it only awaited the moment of actual assault to show its vitality. ' Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws.' Let me write the aphorisms of a people, and I care not who writes their history.... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1900 - 718 pages
...of the growth of plants by electric lights and by under-ground currents. ' ' [Born 1759. Died 17SO.J "Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who make the laws," is an observation shrewdly applicable to the genius of Robert Burns. Where, indeed, upon... | |
 | Theodore Ruggles Timby - 1902 - 340 pages
...is one of nature's poetic ways of lighting the north polar regions. Literature. SOME ONE has said, " Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who make the laws." We would say, Let us edit a people's literature, and we will be answerable for their sense,... | |
 | William Albert Sinclair - 1905 - 396 pages
...keep alive the thirst for liberty. It is but another illustration of the wisdom of the man who said : "Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who may write their laws." The negroes hoodwinked the master class by humming the music of this particular... | |
 | Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer - 1907 - 740 pages
...stanch citizens." In March Wilkeson went to Boston to strengthen the loan with the press of that city. "Let me write the songs of a people and I care not who makes its loans," said he in a letter to Mr. Cooke. "Let me write the seven-thirty editorials and I... | |
 | Charles Franklin Warwick - 1909 - 452 pages
...aroused to action and specially susceptible to the influence of song. It was a wise man who said : " Let me write the songs of a people and I care not who makes the laws." There is more meaning in this expression than at first appears. The two most popular... | |
 | Northern Oratorical League - 1909 - 286 pages
...states ? The ideals of a state are far more important than its statutes. When the poet-philosopher said: "Let me write the songs of a people and I care not who writes their laws," he meant that the destiny of the state, like the destiny of the individual, is... | |
 | Frederick Francis Cook - 1910 - 560 pages
...something out of the common should stir the blood and help to fix the resolution. Who was it that said, "Let me write the songs of a people and I care not who makes its laws"? But great songs have no fixed habitation. Indeed, frequently they are popularized... | |
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Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws. 
