 | 1887 - 810 páginas
...service as aforesaid." Of this remarkable compact Daniel Webster, in his famous reply to Hayne, said : "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." It was the first... | |
 | 1900 - 536 páginas
...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 or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." In sagacity, wisdom... | |
 | District of Columbia. Board of Trustees of Public Schools - 1888 - 940 páginas
...prohibition of slavery, guaranty of English liberties, federal colonial system. " We are accustomed, sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity: we help to perpetuate...law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." (Daniel Webster.) 4. The... | |
 | 1888 - 304 páginas
...of its due and perfect curve." Mr. Webster declared, in a well-known passage : " We are accustomed to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate...law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." The founders of... | |
 | Alexander Black - 1888 - 344 páginas
...by an invisible hand to do just what was wanted of him." And Webster declares: " We are accustomed to praise the law-givers of antiquity; we help to...of any law-giver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787." Strangely enough... | |
 | William Henry Venable - 1888 - 142 páginas
...enactment is July 13, 1787' The eloquent statesman Daniel Webster said of it, in 1830 : " We are accustomed to praise the law-givers of antiquity ; we help to...of any law-giver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. We see its consequences... | |
 | George Frisbie Hoar - 1888 - 42 páginas
...of its due and perfect curve." Mr. Webster declared, in a well-known passage : " We are accustomed to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to...law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." The founders of... | |
 | 1888 - 786 páginas
...service as aforesaid." Of this remarkable compact Daniel Webster, in his famous reply to Hayne, said : " 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." It was the first... | |
 | John Fiske - 1888 - 400 páginas
...Daniel Webster, " whether one single law of any law-giver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." Nothing could have been more emphatically an exercise of national sovereignty ; yet, as Madison said,... | |
 | John Fiske - 1888 - 624 páginas
...before Ohio, the first of the five states, was admitted into the Union. "I doubt," says Daniel Webster, "whether one single law of any law-giver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." Nothing could... | |
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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. 
