 | 1845 - 1368 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 lift... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 páginas
...— and am dust." Again. In the description of the power of the steam-engine, a late writer says : " The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 páginas
...— and am dust." Again. In the description of the power of the steam-engine, a late writer says : " The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or...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... | |
 | William Francis (of Gwennap.) - 1845 - 210 páginas
...can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which they can he 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 778 páginas
...impossibilities. " The trunk of an elephant," it has been finely and truly said, " 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 like wax before it,— draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, —... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 754 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... | |
 | Frederick ROWTON - 1846 - 366 páginas
...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...nothing to it. It can engrave " a seal, and crush obdurate masses of metal " before it — draw out, without breaking, a thread " as fine as a gossamer,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1847 - 448 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 ; and... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 418 páginas
...power 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...or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave u seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it ; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine... | |
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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... 
