 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 538 pages
...is pregnant with philosophy. "We are accustomed," he said, " to praise the law-givers of antiquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. ... It fixed forever the character of the population in the vast regions northwest of the Ohio, by... | |
 | 1892 - 780 pages
...remarkable piece of legislation, one of the most remarkable in American annals, of which Webster said, " I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver ancient...effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character. ' ' It is noticeable in this connection, however, that when this important ordinance was passed Congress... | |
 | Historic sites - 1892 - 474 pages
...forever, — if this be not greatness, then there is no greatness among the living or the dead. 38 39 of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. " It fixed forever the character of the population in the vast regions north-west of the Ohio by excluding... | |
 | Ohio - 1893 - 626 pages
...Webster declared, in a well-known passage : " We are accustomed to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus,...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... | |
 | America - 1893 - 926 pages
...and foresight seem to have been especially granted to public men." " I doubt," said Daniel Webster, "whether one single law of any law-giver, ancient...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 - Education - 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... | |
 | United States - 1894 - 426 pages
...act of sovereignty as any that Congress can pass to-day under the Constitution. Says Daniel Webster : "I doubt whether one single law of any law-giver,...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... | |
 | George Frisbie Hoar - Marietta (Ohio) - 1895 - 64 pages
...Webster declared, in a well-known passage: "We are accustomed to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus,...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 - Pullman Strike, 1894 - 1895 - 68 pages
...Of the Ordinance, Daniel Webster said: — "We are accustomed to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus;...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... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, William Edward Dodd, Marcus Wilson Jernegan, Arthur Pearson Scott - United States - 1918 - 536 pages
...of Solon and Lycurgus; but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has is produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character, than the ordinance of '87. That instrument was drawn by Nathan Dane, then, and now, a citizen of Massachusetts. . . . Now,... | |
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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. 
