 | United States. Congress - 1830 - 692 σελίδες
...Northwestern States, we are accustomed, sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpt-tnate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; but I doubt whether one single law of anyJawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting' character,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 σελίδες
...sense. At the foundation of the constitution of these new north western states, we are accustomed, sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate...lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character, than the ordinance of '87. That instrument was drawn... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1830 - 692 σελίδες
...sense. At the foundation of the constitution of these new Northwestern States, we are accustomed, sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate...lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more d'istinct, marked, and lasting character, than the ordinance of '87. That instrument was drawn... | |
 | 1810 - 354 σελίδες
...lies at the foundation of the Constitutions of these new northwestern States. We are accustomed, sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon 21 and Lycurgus; but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced... | |
 | Edwin Martin Stone - 1843 - 346 σελίδες
...the river Ohio." " We are accustomed," said Mr. Webster, in the US Senate during the debate on Foot's resolution in 1830, " to praise the lawgivers of antiquity;...or modern. has produced effects of a more distinct and marked and lasting character than the ordinance of '87. That instrument was drawn by Nathan Dane,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 572 σελίδες
...constitution of these new Northwestern States lies the celebrated Ordinance of 1787. We are accustomed, Sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to...lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. That instrument was drawn... | |
 | 1852 - 268 σελίδες
...doubt," said Mr. Webster, on one of the most intensely interesting occasions of his public life, " whether one single law of any law-giver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of a more distinct and marked and lasting character than the ordinance of '87, — and certainly it has happened to few... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 574 σελίδες
...constitution of these new Northwestern States lies the celebrated Ordinance of 1787. We are accustomed, Sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to...lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. That instrument was drawn... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - 1854 - 784 σελίδες
...of these new northwestern States, we are accustomed, sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; w* help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus...lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character, than the ordinance of '87. That instrument, was drawn... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - 1854 - 762 σελίδες
...: " At the foundation of the constitution of theso new northwestern States, we arc accustomed, sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lyeurgns ; but 1 doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects... | |
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I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. 
