 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1831 - 234 pagine
...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...corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.—The fabled birth of Minerva from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden, or more perfect... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 341 pagine
...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...revenue gushed forth'. He touched the dead corpse of the publick credit', and it sprang upon its feet*. The fabled birth of Minerva', from the brain of Jove',... | |
 | George Savage White - 1836 - 448 pagine
...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...the public credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or more perfect, than the financial... | |
 | George Savage White, Levi Woodbury - 1836 - 568 pagine
...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...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... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1839 - 371 pagine
...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... | |
 | Chetmond Gnelyu, Esq. - 1850
...whole country saw with admiration. He smote the rock of the national resources, and the abundant stream of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprang upon its feet. — Daniel Webster. GEORGE SELWYN'S BON-MOTS. We shall here quote some of the... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1859
...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... | |
![Biographical memoir [by Edward Everet] and speeches on various occasions](http://bks9.books.google.co.nz/books?id=2VU8AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "Biographical memoir [by Edward Everet] and speeches on various occasions") | Daniel Webster, Edward Everett - 1851
...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...the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or more perfect than the financial... | |
 | Henry Augustus Boardman - 1852 - 64 pagine
...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...the public credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or more perfect than the financial... | |
 | 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...the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet . The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or more perfect than the financial... | |
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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. 
