 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
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 448 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... | |
 | Hermann Lange - 1883 - 294 pages
...the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, precision, and ductility with which this power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend6 an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1884 - 298 pages
...; 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...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, without... | |
 | Great Britain - 1884 - 370 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 it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin, or rend... | |
 | Mathew Wilson - 1884 - 294 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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 pages
...for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility with which it Why, there is it: come sing me a bawdy song: make me merry. I was as virtuously given as a rcml an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1885 - 328 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. 4. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1887 - 438 pages
...has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, * ' for the prodigious power it can exert, and the ease and precision and ductility with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk Inventors as Martyrs to Science. of ¡in elephant... | |
 | 1887 - 436 pages
...engine has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, for the prodigious power it can exert, and the ease and precision and ductility with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk Inventors as Martyrs to Science. of an elephant... | |
 | John Cleaves Henderson - 1890 - 414 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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