 | 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... | |
 | Amelia J. Calver - 1889 - 420 páginas
...service fifty years, and never attempted to deceive his countrymen." JC BRECKENRIDGE, on Henry Clay. "He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue burst forth. He touched the corpse of public credit and it sprang upon its feet." WEBSTER, on Hamilton.... | |
 | Lewis Henry Boutell - 1890 - 78 páginas
...in the city of New York, on the loth of March, 1831, Daniel Webster said of Alexander 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 sprung upon its feet." To most men this is Hamilton's... | |
 | Robert Steel - 1890 - 680 páginas
...already noticed. "The success of his financial schemes was immediate and complete." Daniel Webster said, "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." IX. YOUNG DIVINES. THERE... | |
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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... 
