 America,* 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 of an elephant...  Birmingham: a poem - Page 265by Harry Howells Horton - 1853Full view - About this book
 | 1819 - 610 pages
...varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend an oak is аа nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses...thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like n bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors, — cut steel into ribbands, and impel... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...a pin, or rend an oak, is nothing to it. It can. engrave a seal, or crush masses of metal like wax before it — draw out without breaking a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a. ship of war like .1 bauble i'.uo the air; it can embroider imislinj and forge" anchors— cut steel into ribbands, and... | |
 | 1822 - 184 pages
...us nothing to it It can engrave the hide of a thin drinking glass, aiid crush masses of tne hardest metal before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as a spider's, and lift up the largest weights like a bauble in. the air. It can embroider muslin, and... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, and those of a kindred and lamented genius in America,* it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force...without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors, — cut steel... | |
 | Englishman - 1824 - 420 pages
...nothing * Swartz of Cologne, 1340. to it. It can engrave a seal, or crush masses of metal like wax before it — draw out, without breaking, a thread...as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble into the air; it can embroider muslin, and forge anchors — cut steel into ribbands, and impel loaded... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1825 - 508 pages
...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 ship of war like a bubble in: the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors, cut stqel into ribbons, and impel .loaded... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - 1826 - 202 pages
...pin, or rend an oak, is as nothing 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 a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge anchors 5 cut steel into... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1827 - 398 pages
...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...without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors,— cut 56- NATURE... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 pages
...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, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge anchors, cut steel into... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 pages
...Antithesis, I give the following example. The subject is the steam engine. "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 of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors — cut steel... | |
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