| Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 страници
...at such a time', the whole country perceived with delight', and the whole world', with admiration'. He smote the rock of the national resources', and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth'. He touched the dead corpse of the publick credit', and it sprang upon its feet*. The fabled birth of... | |
| George Savage White - 1836 - 636 страници
...at 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 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,... | |
| Theodore Dwight - 1839 - 384 страници
...place, at 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 streams of revenue burst forth. He touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled... | |
| Edward Everett - 1859 - 872 страници
...this report and the system founded upon it, that Mr. W'ebster alluded when he said of Hamilton : — "He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue burst forth. He touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprang upon its feet." * » Webster's... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1851 - 634 страници
...place, at 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 streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva,... | |
| Henry Augustus Boardman - 1852 - 102 страници
...time when her advocates were patriots and sages." Mr. Webster himself once beautifully said of him, " He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1853
...place, at 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 streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet . The fabled birth of... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1854 - 640 страници
...place, at 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 streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva,... | |
| 1854 - 456 страници
...General Hamilton and the system founded upon it, that Mr. Webster alluded when he said of Hamilton : " He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue burst forth. He touched the dead corpse of the public credit and it sprang upon its feet."* This great... | |
| Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 страници
...point of depression. He raised it to an unprecedented height, and established it on a sure foundation. 'He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprang upon its feet.' 1 Amid the various exhibitions... | |
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