 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 424 páginas
...accounted miracles and impossibilities. " The trunk of an elephant, it has been finely and truly said, that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is as 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, —... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 432 páginas
...accounted miracles and impossibilities. " The trunk of an elephant, it has been finely and truly said, that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is as 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, —... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 438 páginas
...accounted miracles and impossibilities. ' The trunk of an elephant, it has been finely and truly said, that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is as 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, —... | |
 | 1831 - 586 páginas
...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 — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship... | |
 | 1843 - 854 páginas
...with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up ti. pin or rend an oak is as nothing to it. It can engrai« a seal, and crash masses of obdurate metal like •wax before it, — draw out, without breaking,... | |
 | 1834 - 438 páginas
...after-generations. Already it has become a thing alike stupendous for 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... | |
 | 1834 - 614 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 oakj is •aS nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it; draw... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1837 - 524 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 metal before it ; draw out. without breaking, a thread as fine as a gossamer ; and lift up... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1837 - 502 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 metal before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as a gossamer; and lift up a... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 260 páginas
...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... | |
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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... 
