| Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 516 páginas
...consecrate the work of his genius. " He smote the rock of the national resources," says Daniel Webster, " and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprang upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva from the brain of Jove was hardly more sudden or... | |
| Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 480 páginas
...consecrate the work of his genius. " He smote the rock of the national resources," says Daniel Webster, " and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprang upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva from the brain of Jove was hardly more sudden or... | |
| George Payn Quackenbos - 1864 - 504 páginas
...credit cannot be given to the far-seeing policy of Hamilton. In the eloquent language of Webster, " He smote the rock of the national resources and abundant streams of revenue burst forth. He touched the dead corpse of public credit and it sprang upon its feet." 428. In May,... | |
| Jacob Harris Patton - 1865 - 902 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...touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprang upon its feet." ' In this opposition Jefferson, the Secretary of State, performed a secret but... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 páginas
...linger and play on its summit. Address on Laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker IJitl Afonumem, 1825. He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant...revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.* Speech on Hamilton, March, 1881. * He it was that first... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 798 páginas
...smote the nick of the national resnurcts, and abuinlaut streams of revenue gushed forth; ho touched tho dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprung upon its feet." 3 Burr was ^ul^equently tried for treason in attempting to form a new republic, but was acquitted for... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 714 páginas
...Webster paid an eloquent tribute to the genius of Hamilton in a public dinner speech in New York. " He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant...the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprung п]юп its feet.''t On the fourth of July, 1789, he delivered an Enlogium on Major-General Greene... | |
| Jacob Harris Patton - 1867 - 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...touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprang upon its feet." l In this opposition Jefferson, the Secretary of State, performed a secret but... | |
| Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1867 - 1204 páginas
...rather than as a man. Mr. Webster but uttered the voice of that Party, when he said of Hamilton: ' He smote the rock of the national resources and abundant...touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprang upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva from the brain of Jove was hardly more sudden or... | |
| Charles Edwards - 1867 - 534 páginas
...credit, at a time when it was so much needed, he illustrated his subject with that memorable figure, " He smote the rock of the national resources and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth;" and as Mr. Webster said this, he brought his right hand down upon the table to enforce the simile;... | |
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