| 1836 - 522 Seiten
...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...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,... | |
| United States. Congress - 1830 - 692 Seiten
...lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; but I doubt whether one nds in question: that the Government is determined to exert all its en more d'istinct, marked, and lasting character, than the ordinance of '87. That instrument was drawn... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 Seiten
...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 more distinct, marked, and lasting character, than the ordinance of '87. That instrument was drawn... | |
| Danvers (Mass.) - 1852 - 244 Seiten
...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 happened to few... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1853 - 574 Seiten
...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 more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. That instrument was drawn... | |
| Thomas Hart Benton - 1854 - 762 Seiten
...lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lyeurgns ; but 1 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 '87. That instrument, was drawn... | |
| Thomas Hart Benton - 1854 - 784 Seiten
...lawgivers of antiquity ; w* 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 more distinct, marked, and lasting character, than the ordinance of '87. That instrument, was drawn... | |
| 1856 - 654 Seiten
...lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; bat 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 1 787." This tribute to the crowning... | |
| 1886 - 910 Seiten
...first of the five States, was admitted into the Union. " I doubt," says Daniel Webster, " 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." Nothing could have been more... | |
| 1895 - 816 Seiten
...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 more distinct, marked and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. We see its consequences at... | |
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