 | United States. Congress - 1857 - 490 pages
...lawgivers of ' antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; but I doubt whether one l! single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has...and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787." This tribute to the crowning work of the old Congress of the Confederation brought upon him and upon... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1857 - 486 pages
...antiquity; we help lo perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; but I doubt whether one single law ot any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects...and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787." This tribute to the crowning work of the old Congress of the Confederation brought upon him and upon... | |
 | 1895 - 816 pages
...lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. We see its consequences at this moment, and we shall never cease to see them perhaps while the Ohio... | |
 | Christopher Toppan Thayer - 1868 - 88 pages
...lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus : but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." Its prohibition of involuntary servitude, resting on original compact, reaching deeper down than all... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1886 - 1228 pages
...lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has...and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787. Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education for the year 1878. 8°. 68 pp.— Contenti : No.... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1890 - 372 pages
...WEBSTER. Daniel Webster recognized the greatness of the Ordinance when he said:2 "I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." And again : " It set forth and declared it to be a high and binding duty of Government to support schools... | |
 | 1891 - 1360 pages
...%hall forever be encouraged.' It is of this ordinance that Daniel Webster says, ' I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has...of more distinct, marked, and lasting character.' " While it is not necessary here to say much upon the history of the Ohio Company's purchase, it is... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1871 - 564 pages
...lawgivers of Antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus ; but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. That instrument was drawn by Nathan Dane, then and now a citizen of Massachusetts. It was adopted,... | |
 | Lewis Henry Morgan - 1876 - 256 pages
...lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. We see its consequences at this moment, and we shall never cease to see them, perhaps, while the Ohio... | |
 | Ohio. State Centennial Educational Committee - 1876 - 630 pages
...*hnll forever be encouraged." This ordinance, of which Mr. Webster said in 1830, " I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has...of more distinct, marked, and lasting character," was passed July 13, 1787. On the 17th, Dr. Cutler returned from Philadelphia, where he had spent a... | |
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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. 
