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 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1869 - 324 pages
...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 of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend... | |
 | John Wells Foster - 1869 - 480 pages
...defiance. It has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and flexibility,— for the prodigious power 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... | |
 | Missouri. State Board of Agriculture - 1870 - 592 pages
...flexibility, for the prodigious power which it can exert and the ease, precision and ductility with which it can be varied, distributed and applied. The trunk of an elephant 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 before... | |
 | " "Craven - 1830 - 552 pages
...steam power, is a sort of devil upon earth, that neither you nor I ever thought to have to do with. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is «s nothing to it. It can draw out, without breaking, a thread as 6ne as gossamer, and lift a ship... | |
 | 1871 - 404 pages
...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 of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend... | |
 | 1872 - 556 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... | |
 | 1874 - 614 pages
...stupendous for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious powers which it can exert, and the ease, precision, and ductility with which they can be varied,...distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, which can pick up a piu and rend an oak, is nothing to it. It can engrave a seal and crush masses of... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...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 that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...felicity of illustration : It has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility — observed to be on fire. The thing took wing, and now there it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend... | |
 | Hugues Charles S. Cassal, Théodore Karcher - 1876 - 312 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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