 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...  New Outlook - 7 psl.1909Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Robert Waters - 1883 - 616 psl.
...it 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... | |
 | Franklin Woodbury Fisk - 1904 - 368 psl.
...which 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...revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet," — how he would have shorn these sentences of their... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - 1884 - 1194 psl.
...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... | |
 | John Lord - 1884 - 506 psl.
...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... | |
 | Jeremiah Sullivan Black, Chauncey F. Black - 1885 - 648 psl.
...said of Alexander Hamilton that "he smote the rock of the national resources and an abundant stream of revenue gushed forth ; he touched the dead corpse of public credit and it sprang to its feet." How ? By what magic was a modern statesman able, even in a figurative sense, to reproduce... | |
 | Robert Fowler Leighton - 1885 - 540 psl.
...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.... | |
 | 1885 - 544 psl.
...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... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1886 - 568 psl.
...governmental questions. Again, he was the Secretary of the Treasury of whom Webster said, in orotund phrase : "He smote the rock of the national resources, and...He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet." Hence Hamilton wrote on finance, from which, by an easy step, he turned to themes... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - 1886 - 718 psl.
...chiefly 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...revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the public credit and it sprung upon its feet." James A. Hamilton, son of Alexander Hamilton, lived... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1886 - 818 psl.
...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 the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove,... | |
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