 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...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 Minerva', from the brain of Jove',... | |
 | George Savage White - Cotton - 1836 - 514 pages
...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...the public credit, and it sprang 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 - Cotton - 1836 - 508 pages
...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...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 - History - 1839 - 384 pages
...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 birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden,... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 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 best of Selwyn's witticisms... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1859 - 872 pages
...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 Works, vol. ip 200. VOL. in. 34 The two great features of the funding system were a... | |
 | Henry Augustus Boardman - 1852 - 102 pages
...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...touched the dead 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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853
...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...touched the dead 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... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1853 - 252 pages
...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 SELWTN'S BON-MOTS. We shall here quote some of the best of Selwyn's witticisms... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 640 pages
...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...touched the dead 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... | |
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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... 
