| United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...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,... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...sense. At the foundation of the constitution of these new north western states, we are accustomed, sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate...lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character, than the ordinance of '87. That instrument was drawn... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...sense. At the foundation of the constitution of these new Northwestern States, we are accustomed, sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate...lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more d'istinct, marked, and lasting character, than the ordinance of '87. That instrument was drawn... | |
| Clergy - 1810 - 354 pages
...lies at the foundation of the Constitutions of these new northwestern States. We are 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 any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced... | |
| Edwin Martin Stone - Beverly (Mass.) - 1843 - 346 pages
...the river Ohio." " We are accustomed," said Mr. Webster, in the US Senate during the debate on Foot's resolution in 1830, " to praise the lawgivers of antiquity;...or modern. has produced effects of a more distinct and marked and lasting character than the ordinance of '87. That instrument was drawn by Nathan Dane,... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 572 pages
...constitution of these new Northwestern States lies the celebrated Ordinance of 1787. We are accustomed, Sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to...lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. That instrument was drawn... | |
| Danvers (Mass.) - 1852 - 268 pages
...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 happened to few... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 574 pages
...constitution of these new Northwestern States lies the celebrated Ordinance of 1787. We are accustomed, Sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to...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 - United States - 1854 - 784 pages
...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...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 - United States - 1854 - 762 pages
...: " At the foundation of the constitution of theso new northwestern States, we arc accustomed, sir, 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 or modern, has produced effects... | |
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