 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1876 - 40 pages
...hut the key was gone. (c) The lock went hard, yet the key did open it. (c) 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. (d) See XVI. IV. A comma is used between words belonging to the same part of... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...admiration. He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. Ple 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 more perfect than the financial... | |
 | Stephen Bromley McCracken - Centennial Exhibition - 1876 - 714 pages
...Secretary of the Treasury under Washington, and then a captain of artillery, '" 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 stood upon its feet." It produced Warren, Gates, Green, and Putnam,... | |
 | Schuyler Hamilton - Flags - 1877 - 60 pages
...our form of government, had been written by Madison, Jay, and Hamilton. Of the latter Webster said: "He smote the rock of national resources, and abundant...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... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - United States - 1877 - 364 pages
...gave stability at home, and confidence abroad. In the strong but just words of Webster, " Hamilton touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprang upon its feet." * Again : during the war of 1812 all the banks south of New England suspended specie payments; and... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - United States - 1877 - 362 pages
...gave stability at home, and confidence abroad. In the strong but just words of Webster, " Hamilton touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprang upon its feet."4 Again : during the war of 1812 all the banks south of NCAV England suspended specie payments... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1878 - 336 pages
...fairly make your will. (a) The lock went hard, yet the key did open it. (a) 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. (i) This was the greatest victory in that war, so fertile in great exploits;... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1878 - 324 pages
...fairly make your will. («) The lock went hard, yet the key did open it. (a) 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. (i) This was the greatest victory in that war, so fertile in great exploits;... | |
 | James De Mille - English language - 1878 - 584 pages
...a crow-bar." The following is from Daniel Webster's speech on Hamilton : " He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of public credit, and it sprang upon its feet." § 255. FAULTS ARISING FROM THE EPIGRAMMATIC STYLE. The... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - United States - 1879 - 380 pages
...plan was proposed by Hamilton, who, said Daniel Webster, many years after, " 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." All the war debts of the States were assumed by the general government. Ample... | |
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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... 
