 | United States. Congress - Law - 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...effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787." This tribute to the crowning work of the old Congress of the Confederation... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 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 of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787." This tribute to the crowning work of the old Congress of the Confederation... | |
 | Bible - 1895 - 816 pages
...accustomed to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient...effects of more distinct, marked and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. We see its consequences at this moment, and we shall never cease to see... | |
 | Christopher Toppan Thayer - Beverly (Mass.) - 1868 - 88 pages
..." to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus : but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient...effects of more distinct., marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." Its prohibition of involuntary servitude, resting on original compact,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1871 - 564 pages
...Sir, to praise the lawgivers of Antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus ; but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient...effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. That instrument was drawn by Nathan Dane, then and now a citizen of Massachusetts.... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1890 - 372 pages
...OPINION OP DANIEL WEBSTER. Daniel Webster recognized the greatness of the Ordinance when he said:2 "I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient...effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." And again : " It set forth and declared it to be a high and binding duty... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1886 - 1228 pages
...accustomed to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient...effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787. Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education for the year 1878.... | |
 | Ohio. State Centennial Educational Committee - Blind - 1876 - 630 pages
...means of education *hnll forever be encouraged." This ordinance, of which Mr. Webster said in 1830, " I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient...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... | |
 | Lewis Henry Morgan - 1876 - 256 pages
..." to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient...effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. We see its consequences at this moment, and we shall never cease to see... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1876 - 494 pages
..." to praise the 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 eflects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. We see its consequences... | |
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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. 
