| John Thomas Scharf - 1886 - 718 páginas
...rest upon his able adminstration of the Treasury Department. In the eloquent language of Webster, "he smote the rock of the national resources and abundant...of the public credit and it sprung upon its feet." James A. Hamilton, son of Alexander Hamilton, lived in Greenburgh, north of Dobbs Ferry, from 1835... | |
| Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1886 - 818 páginas
...with delight and the whole world saw with admiration. HP smote the rock of the national resour es, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched...of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or more perfect than the... | |
| David Saville Muzzey - 1927 - 710 páginas
...Webster's tribute to the first Secretary of the Treasury has become classic: "He smote the rock of national resources and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth; he touched the dead corpse of public credit and it sprang upon its feet." Certain it is that the growth of our economic prosperity... | |
| 1865 - 834 páginas
...such a time, the whole country perceived with delight, and the whole world saw with admiration. He smote the rock of the National Resources, and abundant...of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or more perfect than the... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency - 1932 - 618 páginas
...Nation received with delight, and the whole world saw with admiration. He smote the rock of natural resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of public credit, and it sprang to its feet."" He might have added that prices rose rapidly. The highest... | |
| 1893 - 694 páginas
...a time, the whole country perceived with delight and the whole world saw with admiration. He sraote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams...of the public credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or more perfect than the... | |
| 1909 - 1190 páginas
...overpraise." To his great work as the first Secretary of the Treasury Daniel Webster paid this tribute : " He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant...revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of public credit, and it sprang upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva from the brain of Jove was... | |
| 1925 - 416 páginas
...inscription on the monument: "He smote the rock of national resources and abundant streams of revenues gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the public credit and it sprang upon its feet." Bishop Asbury's part in the American Revolution was not contributed to the soldiery,... | |
| 1861 - 810 páginas
...preside over a depleted treasury, renewed the miracle attributed by Webster to Alexander Hamilton : " He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant...streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead body of the public credit, and it sprang upon its feet." Desperate as our situation seemed, capitalists... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1957 - 866 páginas
...monument in front of the main building of the United States Treasury in Washington, which states : He smote the rock of the national resources and abundant...of the public credit and It sprung upon its feet. The simple fact is that the United States already owns these alien enemy funds in a formal legal sense... | |
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