 | United States. Office of Education - 1890 - 958 páginas
...to praise the law-givers of antiquity, and we help to perpetuate the faîne of Solon and Lycurgns; but I doubt whether one single law, of any law-giver, ancient or modern, has produced eflVcLs of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. That instrument... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1891 - 684 páginas
...moment moved into its place." In 1830 Daniel Webster said of this great " Ordinance of Freedom : " " We are accustomed to praise the law-givers of antiquity...and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787. We see it« consequences at this moment, and we shall never cease to see them, perhaps, while the Ohio... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1891 - 610 páginas
...law-givers of antiquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus ; but I doubt ichether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern,...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... | |
 | George Wells Knight, John Rogers Commons - 1891 - 358 páginas
...means of education shall 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... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - 1891 - 362 páginas
...means of education shall 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... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1891 - 542 páginas
...happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged," Webster said : " I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient...of more distinct, marked, and lasting character." Next in educational importance to the ordinance of 1787 comes the Congressional grant of 1862 providing... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1892 - 526 páginas
...Webster contains the truth of history, and is pregnant with, philosophy. "We are accustomed," he said, " to praise the law-givers of antiquity ; we help to...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... | |
 | Alfred Emory Lee - 1892 - 1202 páginas
...American legislation. In 1S30 Daniel Webster said of it : "We are accustomed to praise the lawgivers of an antiquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon...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... | |
 | 1892 - 780 páginas
...remarkable piece of legislation, one of the most remarkable in American annals, of which Webster said, " I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver ancient...effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character. ' ' It is noticeable in this connection, however, that when this important ordinance was passed Congress... | |
 | 1892 - 474 páginas
...forever, — if this be not greatness, then there is no greatness among the living or the dead. 38 39 of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. " It fixed forever the character of the population in the vast regions north-west of the Ohio by excluding... | |
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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. 
