 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pagini
...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 - 1836 - 636 pagini
...with delight, and the whole world saw with admiration. He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched...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... | |
 | George Savage White - 1836 - 508 pagini
...with delight, and the whole world saw with admiration. 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 spnmg upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1839 - 384 pagini
...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 - 1850 - 196 pagini
...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 - 1859 - 872 pagini
...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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 634 pagini
...with delight and the whole world saw with admiration. 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. The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or... | |
 | Henry Augustus Boardman - 1852 - 102 pagini
...sages." Mr. Webster himself once beautifully said of him, " 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. The fabled birth of Minerva from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 pagini
...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 - 1853
...with delight and the whole world saw with admiration. 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 . The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden... | |
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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. 
