 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1876 - 506 pages
..." 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...more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. We see its consequences at this moment, and we shall never cease to see them, perhaps,... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...help to perpetuate 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,... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1830 - 694 pages
...sir, to praise the lawgivcrsof antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; but I doubt whether one single law- of any lawgiver, ancient...distinct, marked, and lasting character, than the ordinance of '87. That instrument was drawn by SÍSATE.] Mr. Foofs Resolution. [JA*. 20, 1830. Nathan... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...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...distinct, marked, and lasting character, than the ordinance of '87. That instrument was drawn by Nathan Dane, then, and now a citizen of Massachusetts.... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...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...d'istinct, marked, and lasting character, than the ordinance of '87. That instrument was drawn by SEXATÏ.] Mr, Fool's Resolution. [JAK. 20, 1830. Nathan... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1830 - 582 pages
...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...distinct, marked, and lasting character, than the Ordinance of 1787. That instrument was drawn by NATHAN DANE, then, and now, a citizen of Massachusetts.... | |
 | Edwin Martin Stone - Beverly (Mass.) - 1843 - 348 pages
..." 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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 582 pages
...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...more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. That instrument was drawn by Nathan Dane, then and now a citizen of Massachusetts.... | |
 | Danvers (Mass.) - Danvers (Mass.) - 1852 - 244 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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 574 pages
...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...more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. That instrument was drawn by Nathan Dane, then and now a citizen of Massachusetts.... | |
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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. 
