 By his admirable contrivance, 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...  Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c - Page 2221819Full view - About this book
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 pages
...— 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 rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal and crush masses of obdurate metal before it, — draw out,... | |
 | William Francis (of Gwennap.) - 1845 - 210 pages
...Writer( "has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility! 'or "le prodigious powers which it 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,... | |
 | Frederick ROWTON - 1846 - 366 pages
...Engine. " It has become," he says, " 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, that can pick up a pin, or... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 756 pages
...admirable contrivance, 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 that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 754 pages
...admirable contrivance, 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 that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...admirable contrivance, 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 that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 418 pages
...steam, in order to keep the cylinder from being cooled by the external air. D is the digious 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 up a pin, or rend... | |
 | Frederick Rowton - 1850 - 334 pages
...Engine. " It has become," he says, "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, that can pick up a pin, or... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1850 - 408 pages
...steam, in order to keep the cylinder from being cooled by the external air. D is the digious 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 up a pin, or rend... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...admirable contrivance, 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 that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin... | |
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