 | 1900 - 536 Seiten
...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 and foresight,... | |
 | Alexander Black - 1888 - 344 Seiten
...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...law-giver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787." Strangely enough it was the... | |
 | George Frisbie Hoar - 1888 - 42 Seiten
...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...lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." The founders of the Northwest... | |
 | 1888 - 304 Seiten
...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...lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." The founders of the Northwest... | |
 | William Henry Venable - 1888 - 142 Seiten
...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...law-giver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. We see its consequences at... | |
 | District of Columbia. Board of Trustees of Public Schools - 1888 - 940 Seiten
...prohibition of slavery, guaranty of English liberties, federal colonial system. " We are accustomed, sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity: we help to perpetuate...lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." (Daniel Webster.) 4. The Northwest... | |
 | 1888 - 786 Seiten
...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 emphatic... | |
 | John Fiske - 1888 - 624 Seiten
...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 have been more... | |
 | Daniel Joseph Ryan - 1888 - 226 Seiten
...foundations on which they might build mighty and prosperous commonwealths. Daniel Webster said that no one single law of any law-giver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked and lasting character than this ordinance. Of it Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice... | |
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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. 
