 | 1892 - 780 str.
...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 when this important... | |
 | 1892 - 474 str.
...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 of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. " It fixed forever the character of the population... | |
 | 1893 - 626 str.
...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...or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." The founders of the Northwest and the framers... | |
 | 1893 - 926 str.
...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, it has... | |
 | 1894 - 426 str.
...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,...or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787." Said Madison : "A great and independent... | |
 | George Frisbie Hoar - 1895 - 64 str.
...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...or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." The founders of the Northwest and the framers... | |
 | Zephaniah Swift Holbrook - 1895 - 68 str.
...not have been the work of Jefferson. Of the Ordinance, Daniel Webster said: — "We are accustomed to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate...or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. We see its consequences at this moment, and... | |
 | Cleveland Centennial Commission - 1896 - 528 str.
...yet so mightily exceed, the anticipation of the legislators." Daniel Webster said: "We are accustomed to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to...or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. We see its consequences at this moment and... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale, Mary Louise Hinsdale - 1896 - 380 str.
...Government of the Northwest Territory. Two or three will be quoted. Daniel Webster: "We are accustomed to praise the law-givers of antiquity; we help to...or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. We see its consequences at this moment, and... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1897 - 1328 str.
...Northwest Territory, of which Webster said, in his measured and magisterial words, that he doubted "whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character." This celebrated ordinance was drafted, as is known, by Nathan Dane,... | |
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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. 
