 | James Mitchell - 1825 - 798 páginas
...exert, and for the ease, precision, and dexterity with which this power can be 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 crash masses of obdurate metal, like wax : draw out, without... | |
 | John S Skinner - 1825 - 436 páginas
...which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, with which that power can be 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... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1825 - 508 páginas
...varied, distributed, and applied. , The trank of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend au oak is nothing: to it. It can engrave a seal and crush masses of obdurate metal lake-wax — draw out, without break-: ing, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - 1826 - 202 páginas
...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...to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate reotals before it ; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up... | |
 | 1819 - 606 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 up a pin or n ml an oak is аз nothing to it. It can engrave a eeal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 380 páginas
...varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick np 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... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1827 - 398 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 up a pin or rend an oak, is nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it, — draw out, without... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 páginas
...it can exert, and the ease, and precision and ductility, with which they can be 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,... | |
 | Robert Stuart - 1829 - 372 páginas
...it can exert, and the ease and precision and ductility with which they can be 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; draws... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1830 - 350 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 up a pin or rend an oak, is nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it, — draw out, without... | |
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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... 
