 | Richard Green Parker - 1850 - 408 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...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... | |
 | Frederick Rowton - 1850 - 334 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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 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 »s gossamer, and lift a... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 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 I iff up... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 472 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... | |
 | Success - 1851 - 362 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 páginas
...whieh that power ean be varied, distributed, and applied. The - trunk of an elephant, that ean piek up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It ean engrave a seal, and erush masses of obdurate metal before it — draw out, without breaking, a... | |
 | George Grant (author of Panorama of science.) - 1852 - 268 páginas
...accounted miraculous and impossible. " 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 - 1852 - 620 páginas
...precision and ductility with wnil'h it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an eleHiirmt, 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 before it ; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a... | |
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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... 
