 | United States. Congress - 1830 - 692 sider
...Northwestern States, we are accustomed, sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpt-tnate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; but I doubt whether one single law of anyJawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting' character,... | |
 | 1836 - 522 sider
...Mr. Webster in the debate on Mr. Pool's resolution in 1830, 'to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus...lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of a more distinct, marked and lasting character than the Ordinance of '87. That instrument was drawn... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1830 - 692 sider
...constitution of these new Northwestern States, we are accustomed, sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; iberty and independence, '87. That instrument was drawn by SEXATÏ.] Mr, Fool's Resolution. [JAK. 20, 1830. Nathan Папе,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 sider
...constitution of these new north western states, we are accustomed, sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus;...marked, and lasting character, than the ordinance of '87. That instrument was drawn by Nathan Dane, then, and now a citizen of Massachusetts. It was adopted,... | |
 | 1810 - 354 sider
...accustomed, sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon 21 and Lycurgus; but I doubt whether one single law of...marked, and lasting character, than the ordinance of '87. That instrument was drawn by NATHAN DANE, then, and now, a citizen of Massachusetts. It was adopted,... | |
 | Edwin Martin Stone - 1843 - 346 sider
...the US Senate during the debate on Foot's resolution in 1830, " to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus...lawgiver, ancient or modern. has produced effects of a more distinct and marked and lasting character than the ordinance of '87. That instrument was drawn... | |
 | 1852 - 268 sider
...doubt," said Mr. Webster, on one of the most intensely interesting occasions of his public life, " whether one single law of any law-giver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of a more distinct and marked and lasting character than the ordinance of '87, — and certainly it has... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 574 sider
...lies the celebrated Ordinance of 1787. We are accustomed, Sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus...was drawn by Nathan Dane, then and now a citizen of Massachusetts. It was adopted, as I think I have understood, without the slightest alteration ; and... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - 1854 - 784 sider
...of these new northwestern States, we are accustomed, sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; w* help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus...marked, and lasting character, than the ordinance of '87. That instrument, was drawn by Nathan Dane, then, and now, a citizen of Massachusetts. It was adopted,... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - 1854 - 762 sider
...to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lyeurgns ; but 1 doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient...marked, and lasting character, than the ordinance of '87. That instrument, was drawn by Nathan Dane, then, and now, a citizen of Massachusetts. It was adopted,... | |
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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. 
