 | Lewis Henry Morgan - 1876 - 256 pages
...on the Ordinance of 1787 ? " We are accustomed," he said, " to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus;...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. We see its consequences at this moment, and we shall never cease to see them, perhaps, while the Ohio... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1876 - 494 pages
...on the Ordinance of 1787 ? " We are accustomed," he said, " to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus...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... | |
 | Ohio. State Centennial Educational Committee - Blind - 1876 - 630 pages
...means of education *hnll forever be encouraged." This ordinance, of which Mr. Webster said in 1830, " I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient...of more distinct, marked, and lasting character," was passed July 13, 1787. On the 17th, Dr. Cutler returned from Philadelphia, where he had spent a... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1892 - 450 pages
...Northwestern states lies the ordinance of 1787. We are accustomed, sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus...1787. That instrument was drawn by Nathan Dane, then and now a citizen of Massachusetts. It was adopted, as I think I have understood, without the slightest... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Education - 1877 - 508 pages
...January 20, 1830, Daniel Webster observed : AVc are accustomed to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus...and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787. « * • It fixed forever the character of the population in the vast regions northwest of the Ohio... | |
 | Israel Ward Andrews - Marietta (Ohio) - 1877 - 94 pages
...highly praised than this. Mr. Webster says: ffWe are accustomed to praise the law-givers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus;...and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787." Judge Timothy Walker says : " It approaches as near to absolute perfection as anything to be found... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1877 - 558 pages
...asserting its enduring character : — " We are accustomed, Sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus;...marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787 It fixed forever the character of the population in the vast regions northwest of the Ohio, by excluding... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1877 - 562 pages
...asserting its enduring character: — " We are accustomed, Sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus;...marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787 It fixed forever the character of the population in the vast regions northwest of the Ohio, by excluding... | |
 | Israel Ward Andrews - Marietta (Ohio) - 1877 - 92 pages
...accustomed to praise the law-givers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus j but I doubt whether one single law of any law-giver,...and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787." Judge Timothy Walker says : " It approaches as near to absolute perfection as anything to be 'found... | |
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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. 
