 | George Frisbie Hoar - 1895 - 64 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." The founders of the Northwest and the framers of the Ordinance meant to put its great securities beyond... | |
 | Zephaniah Swift Holbrook - 1895 - 68 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... | |
 | 1895 - 538 pages
...granted to public men." "I doubt," said Daniel Webster, "whether one single law of any law -giver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct,...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... | |
 | Cleveland Centennial Commission - 1896 - 528 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... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale, Mary Louise Hinsdale - 1896 - 380 pages
...law-givers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; but I doubt whether one single law of any law-giver, 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... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1897 - 1328 pages
...Territory, of which Webster said, in his measured and magisterial words, that he doubted "whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has...of more distinct, marked, and lasting character." This celebrated ordinance was drafted, as is known, by Nathan Dane, a delegate to Congress from Massachusetts,... | |
 | Lyman P. Powell - 1898 - 656 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, a citizen of Massachusetts ; and certainly it has happened... | |
 | Lyman Pierson Powell - 1899 - 664 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, a citizen of Massachusetts ; and certainly it has happened... | |
 | 1899 - 636 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 produced effects of a more distinct and marked and lasting character than the ordinance of "87." In 1790 Mr. Dane was a... | |
 | Alexander McDonald Thomson - 1900 - 876 pages
...constitutional authority." Yet Madison warmly commended the act, and Daniel Webster said: "I doubt whether one single law of any law-giver, ancient or modern, has...and lasting character, than the Ordinance of 1787." But it was a usurpation of authority for the common good, like the Louisiana purchase from France in... | |
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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. 
