 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1869 - 324 páginas
...it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick...to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and... | |
 | 1869 - 514 páginas
...which it can exert, and the ease, precision and ductility with which it can bo 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 it ; draw out... | |
 | Charles Dana Wilber - 1870 - 70 páginas
...conclude this portion of our subject than to introduce the appropropriate remarks of Francis Jeffrey. 30 up 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 ships... | |
 | Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf - 1870 - 498 páginas
...that of which an eloquent essayist has said: "The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a needle and rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal; draw out without breaking a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a shipof-war, like... | |
 | " "Craven - 1830 - 552 páginas
...steam power, is a sort of devil upon earth, that neither you nor I ever thought to have to do with. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is «s nothing to it. It can draw out, without breaking, a thread as 6ne as gossamer, and lift a ship... | |
 | Missouri. State Board of Agriculture - 1870 - 592 páginas
...power which it can exert and the ease, precision and ductility with which it can be varied, distributed and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin orrend an oak is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal and crush masses of obdurate metal before... | |
 | 1871 - 404 páginas
...which it can exert, and the ease and precision and ductility with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick...to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it ; draw out, without breaking, a thread as line as a gossamer, and lift a ship... | |
 | 1872 - 556 páginas
...exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility with which that power can be varied, distributed and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick...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... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 páginas
...can exert, and the ease and precision and ductility with which that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick...nothing to it. It can engrave a seal and crush masses of obdurate metal ; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like... | |
 | 1874 - 614 páginas
...varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, which can pick up a piu and rend an oak, is nothing to it. It can engrave a seal and crush masses of obdurate metal, like wax, before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as . gossamer, and... | |
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By his admirable contrivances 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 it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk... 
