 | United States. Congress - 1830 - 692 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | 1836 - 522 pagina’s
...were based. ' We are accustomed,' said Mr. Webster in the debate on Mr. Pool's resolution in 1830, 'to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to...lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of a more distinct, marked and lasting character than the Ordinance of '87. That instrument was drawn... | |
 | 1810 - 354 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1852 - 268 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - 1854 - 762 pagina’s
...: " 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... | |
 | 1856 - 654 pagina’s
...yet a wilderness, deeper than all local laws 6 local constitutions. " We are accustomed,'' gal 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 or modern, has produced effects of more... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1857 - 490 pagina’s
...wilderness, deeper than all ' loc;'J laws or local constitutions. "We are acli custnmed," said he, " to praise the lawgivers of ' antiquity; we help to...fame of Solon and Lycurgus; but I doubt whether one l! single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1857 - 486 pagina’s
...local constitutions. "We are accustomed," said he, " to praise the lawgivers ot" antiquity; we help lo perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; but I doubt whether one single law ot any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character... | |
 | 1891 - 1360 pagina’s
...means of education %hall forever be encouraged.' It is of this ordinance that Daniel Webster says, ' I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient...of more distinct, marked, and lasting character.' " While it is not necessary here to say much upon the history of the Ohio Company's purchase, it is... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1876 - 494 pagina’s
...speech in answer to Hayne, he pronounced on the Ordinance of 1787 ? " We are accustomed," he said, " to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to...law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced eflects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. We see its consequences... | |
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We are accustomed . . . to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; 80 FATHERS OF THE CONSTITUTION but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct,... 
