 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1831 - 248 pages
...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 - 360 pages
...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...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',... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1835 - 764 pages
...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...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, than... | |
 | George Savage White - 1836 - 528 pages
...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...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, than the... | |
 | George Savage White - 1836 - 508 pages
...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 spnmg upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1839 - 384 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 pages
...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 - 872 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Augustus Boardman - 1852 - 102 pages
...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...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 than the... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853
...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...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 than... | |
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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. 
