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... Proceedings ... - Página 170de New York State Bar Association - 1904Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Homer S. Thrall - 1883 - 910 páginas
...Hamilton, who was at the head of the Treasury during "Washington's administration, Daniel Webster said: " He smote the rock of the National resources, and abundant streams of revenue burst forth ; he touched the dead corpse of public credit and it sprung upon its feet.") At the close... | |
| Franklin Woodbury Fisk - 1904 - 368 páginas
...lions at Inkermann — to see which form of expression is the moi-e energetic. When Daniel Webster said of Alexander Hamilton, — " He smote the rock of...resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet," — how he would have... | |
| James Gillespie Blaine - 1884 - 1194 páginas
...tax of four hundred thousand dollars on an income of four millions. Mr. Webster said that " Hamilton smote the rock of the National resources and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth." But Hamilton's Funding Bill was not more" powerful in establishing the credit of the young Republic... | |
| Robert Fowler Leighton - 1885 - 540 páginas
...during the Revolution. 12. Franklin, who was a great philosopher, was born in Boston. 13. Hamilton smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. 14. There3 is a pleasure in the pathless woods. 15. The soldiers were brave.3 NOTES AND QUESTIONS.... | |
| John Thomas Scharf - 1886 - 718 páginas
...chiefly rest upon his able adminstration of the Treasury Department. In the eloquent language of Webster, "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." James A. Hamilton, son... | |
| Charles Francis Richardson - 1886 - 568 páginas
...governmental questions. Again, he was the Secretary of the Treasury of whom Webster said, in orotund phrase : "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 sprung upon its feet." Hence Hamilton wrote on... | |
| Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - 572 páginas
...questions. Again, he was the Secretary of the Treasury of whom Webster said, in orotund phrase : " 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 sprung upon its feet." Hence Hamilton wrote on... | |
| Julia B. Hoitt - 1890 - 426 páginas
...; he never failed to speak the right word in the right place. Bancroft ALEXANDER HAMILTON (d. 1804) 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... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 564 páginas
...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 gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprang upon its feet The fabled birth of Minerva,... | |
| John William Wallace - 1889 - 126 páginas
...participated in the councils of this body, stand the names of Alexander Hamilton and John Jay; Hamilton, who "smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth; who touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprung upon its feet;" Jay, the pure, the... | |
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