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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time - Page 2360
by David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 4190 pages
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 12

1823 - 946 pages
...was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious...
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The Youth's magazine, or Evangelical miscellany

1842 - 634 pages
...so regulated, as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures ; and its power so increased, as to set weight and solidity at defiance. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is nothing to it. It can engrave a...
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Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c

1819 - 490 pages
...By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and Ilex bility; for the prodigious power which 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...
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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 5

1825 - 458 pages
...was so regulated as to make it capable of being dpplied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity...stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility,— fur the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility with which...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 2; Volume 126

1819 - 708 pages
...let weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing ttupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the...the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which they can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick op a pin or rend...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 2; Volume 126

1819 - 780 pages
...was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious...
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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of ..., Volume 5

1819 - 610 pages
...was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his ad* This notice of the character of Mr Watt appeared first in the Scotsman newspaper. It follows so...
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The Quarterly Journal, Volume 8

1820 - 450 pages
...was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary, Volume 4

1820 - 494 pages
...and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious powers which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which they can be varied,...
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The Annual biography and obituary, Volume 4

1820 - 482 pages
...was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious...
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