 | Henry Howe - 1891 - 684 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 it« consequences at this moment, and we shall never cease to see them, perhaps, while the Ohio... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1891 - 542 pages
...schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged," Webster said : " I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has...of more distinct, marked, and lasting character." Next in educational importance to the ordinance of 1787 comes the Congressional grant of 1862 providing... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - 1891 - 362 pages
...shall 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... | |
 | George Wells Knight, John Rogers Commons - 1891 - 358 pages
...shall 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... | |
 | Alfred Emory Lee - 1892 - 1202 pages
...lawgivers of an 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... | |
 | Richard Gause Boone - 1892 - 480 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.' " " Never, probably, in the history of the world," said Chief Justice Chase, "did a measure of legislation... | |
 | 1892 - 780 pages
...legislation, one of the most remarkable in American annals, of which Webster said, " I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver ancient or modern has produced...effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character. ' ' It is noticeable in this connection, however, that when this important ordinance was passed Congress... | |
 | 1893 - 926 pages
...seem to have been especially granted to public men." " I doubt," said Daniel Webster, "whether one single law of any law-giver, ancient or modern, has...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." In sagacity, wisdom and foresight, it has never been surpassed. It has stood the test of time for more... | |
 | University of the State of New York - 1893 - 730 pages
...ordinance of 1787, of which Daniel Webster said: "I doubt whether one single law of any law giver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked and lasting character," it was declared that " religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the... | |
 | 1894 - 426 pages
...any that Congress can pass to-day under the Constitution. Says Daniel Webster : "I doubt whether one single law of any law-giver, ancient or modern, has...and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787." Said Madison : "A great and independent fund of revenue is passing into the hands of a single body... | |
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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. 
