 | 1819 - 490 pages
...varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend an oak is nothing to it. it can engrave a seal, and crush masses...before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as line as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge... | |
 | 1819 - 610 pages
...varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend an oak is аа nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like... | |
 | 1819 - 708 pages
...an elephant that can pick op a pin or rend an oak is nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crash masses of obdurate metal like wax before it, draw out, without, breaking, a thread a« fine as gossamer, and lift a ship ofwar like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge... | |
 | 1820 - 450 pages
...varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend an oak is nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses...it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as a gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a baubje in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...which can pick vip a pin, or rend an oak, is nothing to it. It can. engrave a seal, or crush masses of metal like wax before it — draw out without breaking...as fine as gossamer, and lift a. ship of war like .1 bauble i'.uo the air; it can embroider imislinj and forge" anchors— cut steel into ribbands, and... | |
 | 1820 - 612 pages
...and applied. 'The trunk of an Elephant that can pick Dp a pin, or rend an o<ik is nothing tu it.' 11 can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal...wax before it; draw out without breaking a thread » light as Gossamer, and lift up a ship of war into the air like a buable. It can embroider muslin,... | |
 | 1821 - 444 pages
...varied, distributed and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses...it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as a gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge anchors... | |
 | Colin MacKenzie - 1821 - 724 pages
...varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before the sun ; it can draw out, without breaking, a thread an fine as a gossamer, and lift a ship of war... | |
 | Colin Mackenzie - 1822 - 774 pages
...varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before the sun ; it can draw out, without breaking, a. thread as fine as a gossamer, and lift a ship of war... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...precision and ductility with which it can be varied, .distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend an oak is as nothing...engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of war... | |
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By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility — for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which that power can be varied, distributed, and applied.... 
