...is to say, "Do not cast pearls before swine." When Daniel Webster said of Alexander Hamilton, " 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!" he uttered...

...is to say, "Do not cast pearls before swine." When Daniel Webster said of Alexander Hamilton, " 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!" he uttered...

...who was at the head of the Treasury during "Washington's administration, Daniel Webster said: " 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 sprung upon its feet.") At the close...

...form of expression is the moi-e energetic. When Daniel Webster said of Alexander Hamilton, — " He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant...of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet," — how he would have shorn these sentences of their strength had he removed his metaphors and put...

...had an original and creative genius. " He smote the rock of the national resources," said 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 Jupiter was hardly more sudden...

...tax of four hundred thousand dollars on an income of four millions. Mr. Webster said that " Hamilton smote the rock of the National resources and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth." But Hamilton's Funding Bill was not more" powerful in establishing the credit of the young Republic...

...during the Revolution. 12. Franklin, who was a great philosopher, was born in Boston. 13. Hamilton smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. 14. There3 is a pleasure in the pathless woods. 15. The soldiers were brave.3 NOTES AND QUESTIONS....

...financial measures by which the first secretary of the treasury, to use Webster's very effective metaphor, "touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprung upon its feet."8 The question of apportionment was a peculiarly perplexing one during the first two years, and...

...financial measures by which the first secretary of the treasury, to use Webster's very effective metaphor, "touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprung upon its feet."8 The question of apportionment was a peculiarly perplexing one during the first two years, and...

...magnificent praise bestowed on him by another great American statesman: " He smote the rock of our national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth; he touched the corpse of the public credit, and it sprang upon its feet." It is a curious reflection that however...