 | United States. Congress - 1830 - 692 ページ
...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, than the ordinance of '87. That instrument was drawn by SENATE.] Mr. Foot's Resolution. 20, 1830. Nathan Dane, then, and... | |
 | 1836 - 522 ページ
...'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 effects of a more distinct, marked and lasting character than the Ordinance of '87. That instrument was drawn... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 ページ
...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...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 ページ
...sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; but he cession of the lands in question: that the Government...patronage and protection of the rights of the Indians, a '87. That instrument was drawn by SEXATÏ.] Mr, Fool's Resolution. [JAK. 20, 1830. Nathan Папе,... | |
 | Edwin Martin Stone - 1843 - 348 ページ
..." 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 effects of a more distinct and marked and lasting character than the ordinance of '87. That instrument was drawn... | |
 | 1852 - 268 ページ
...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 ページ
...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...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. That instrument was drawn by Nathan Dane, then and now a citizen of Massachusetts. It was adopted,... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - 1854 - 784 ページ
...sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; w* help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus ; but I 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,... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - 1854 - 762 ページ
...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,... | |
 | 1856 - 654 ページ
...he, "to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; bat I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient...marked, and lasting character, than the Ordinance of 1 787." This tribute to the crowning work of the old Congress of the Confederation brought upon him... | |
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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. 
