 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...  Proceedings ... - Page 170de New York State Bar Association - 1904Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 pages
...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... | |
 | 1855 - 800 pages
...report of 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."* The two... | |
 | Fernando Wood - 1856 - 64 pages
...out of its troubled chaos. Well was it said by Webster, in his celebrated eulogy of Hamilton, that " 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 bird of Minerva... | |
 | Freeman Hunt - 1856 - 650 pages
...important. It was to this report 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 piablic credit, and it sprang upon its feet."* This great... | |
 | Cornelius Van Santvoord - 1856 - 474 pages
...without full sympathy with Sir Philip Sydney's ander Hamilton had no originality, but he nevertheless "smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth." And so it would be easy, with a dash of the pen, to deny great original thoughts to the most illustrious... | |
 | 1857 - 624 pages
...matchless Webster, " 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,... | |
 | 1857 - 668 pages
...matchless Webster, " the whole country perceived with delight, and the whole world saw with admiration. Ho 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,... | |
 | Freeman Hunt - 1858 - 652 pages
...important. It was to this report 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 public credit, and it sprang upon its feet."* This great... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1859 - 618 pages
...matchless Webster, " 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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 pages
...these masterly state papers that Daniel Webster, at • public dinner in New York in 1831, said, " He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth ; he touched the dead aorpse of the public credit, and it sprung upon its feet." ' Burr was subsequently... | |
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