 | Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1862 - 404 pages
...will be the songs learned there. Then let both song and sentiment be something worth remem11 ' bering. A great philosopher has said, " Let me write the songs...school songs becomes doubly important when we reflect how they are to sink into the minds and cleave to the memory of pupils. Sung on the play grounds, shouted... | |
 | Clement Laird Vallandigham - United States - 1863 - 24 pages
...stronger than hooks of steel. He was a wise statesman, though he may. never have held an office, who said, " Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws." Why is ihe Marseillaise prohibited in France? Sir, Hail Columbia and theStnrSpangied... | |
 | Clement Laird Vallandigham - United States - 1863 - 282 pages
...stronger than hooks of steel. He was a wise statesman, though he may never have held an office, who said : " Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws." Why is the Marseillaise prohibited in France? Sir, Hail Columbia and the Star-Spangled... | |
 | Clement Laird Vallandigham - United States - 1864 - 586 pages
...stronger than hooks of steel. He was a wise statesman, though he may never have held an office, who said : " Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws." Why is the Marseillaise prohibited in France ? Sir, Hail Columbia and the StarSpangled... | |
 | Education - 1878 - 446 pages
...an improvement in taste and culture in the mass of our people. But even the enthusiast who exclaims, "Let me write the songs of a people and I care not who make their laws," admits that the government of a people constitutes a very important element in their... | |
 | Music - 1882 - 622 pages
...finds lodgment among them ; no class so degraaed but it has place in their midst. Some one has well said, " Let me write the songs of a people, and I care no t whomakestheirlaws." And he might add in continuation of his theme, "Show me the melodies of a... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - Biography - 1887 - 718 pages
...fame of Charles Dickens is destined to grow brighter yet. ROBERT BURNS. [BoRN 1759. DIED 1796.] " T ET 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... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - Biography - 1888 - 824 pages
...of Charles Dickens is destined to grow brighter yet. ROBERT BURNS. [BOR.N 1759. HIED 1796.] " T ET 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... | |
 | Isaac Edwards Clarke - Drawing - 1892 - 1690 pages
...Americans. Healthy patriotism can lie sentimental, but it must be intelligent. Said the philosopher: "Let me write the songs of a people and I care not who make their laws." That day has passed, never to return. Steam and electricity have broken the spell.... | |
 | Michael Patrick O'Connor - Irish - 1893 - 588 pages
...tradition of 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... | |
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Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws. 
