 | 1834 - 438 pages
...its force and its flexibility. 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 metals like wax before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 pages
...a pin or rend an oak is as 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 up a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors, — cut steel... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1837 - 524 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 a gossamer ; and lift up a ship of war,... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1837 - 502 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 a gossamer; and lift up a ship of war, like... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...example. The subject is the steam engine :— "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 up a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors—cut steel into... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...example. The subject is the steam engine : — " 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 up a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors — cut steel... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1838 - 266 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 like... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1838 - 702 pages
...comparison of it: it can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metals like wax before it : it can draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of war like a bauble inlo the air: it can embroider muslin and forge anchors: it can tut... | |
 | Roads - 1839 - 360 pages
...power can be varied, distributed, and applied. " The trunk of an elephant," says an eloquent writer, "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, like... | |
 | François Arago - 1839 - 290 pages
...published in an Edinburgh newspaper, (the Scotsman,) of the 4th September 1819. 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 a ship of war like... | |
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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.... 
