 | 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 or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character.' " While it is not necessary here to say much upon the... | |
 | 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 or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character." Next in educational importance to the ordinance of 1787... | |
 | 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 or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character.' " While it is not necessary here to say much upon the... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1891 - 688 páginas
...its place." In 1830 Daniel Webster said of this great "Ordinance of Freedom : " " We are accustomed to praise the law-givers of antiquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solan and Lycurgus ; but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modem, has produced... | |
 | 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...law-giver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. ... It fixed forever the character... | |
 | 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...lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked and lasting character, than the Ordinance of 1787. We see its consequences at... | |
 | 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 or modern has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character. ' ' It is noticeable in this connection, however, that... | |
 | 1893 - 926 páginas
...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,... | |
 | 1894 - 426 páginas
...act of sovereignty as any that Congress can pass to-day under the Constitution. Says Daniel Webster : "I doubt 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." Said Madison : "A great and... | |
 | George Frisbie Hoar - 1895 - 64 páginas
...return 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... | |
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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. 
