| Israel Ward Andrews - 1877 - 92 pages
...law-givers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus j but I doubt whether one single law of any law-giver, ancient or modern, has...and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787." Judge Timothy Walker says : " It approaches as near to absolute perfection as anything to be 'found... | |
| Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1892 - 450 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,... | |
| Frederick J. Brown, Herbert Baxter Adams, Samuel Alexander Harrison, Sebastian Ferris Streeter - 1877 - 136 pages
...the educational interests of the Great North- West. "I doubt," says Daniel Webster,2 " whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of 1 Journals of Congress, IV., p. 380. more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance... | |
| 1887 - 804 pages
...law-givers 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... | |
| Robert Samuel Rantoul - 1881 - 690 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,... | |
| Gail Hamilton - 1881 - 358 pages
...consecrated it for ever to liberty and light. Of this ordinance Daniel Webster said: "I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." Judge Walker said : '-' It approaches as nearly to absolute perfection as anything to be found in the... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1881 - 578 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...marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1767. That instrument was drawn by Nathan Dane, then and now a citizen of Massachusetts. It \v as adopted,... | |
| George Punchard - 1881 - 728 pages
...United States Northwest of the River Ohio.* * Mr. Webster said of this ordinance : " I doubt whether one single law of any Lawgiver, ancient or modern, has...more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the The passage of this ordinance, July 13th, 1787, probably decided the immediate movements of the first... | |
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