 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
 | Francis Wayland - 1837 - 524 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1838 - 266 pages
...it has become a thing alike stupendous 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 of an elephant, that can pick up a pin, or rend... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1839 - 298 pages
...it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which it can be varied, distribnted, and applied. 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 ont, withont... | |
 | François Arago - 1839 - 154 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... | |
 | François Arago - 1839 - 290 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 it can be varied, distributed, and applied. * First published in an Edinburgh newspaper, (the Scotsman,)... | |
 | John Campbell - 1839 - 424 pages
...began; and this fearful element has become a thing alike stupendous 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, and distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or... | |
 | Dominique François J. Arago - 1839 - 290 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 it can be varied, distributed, and applied. * First published in an Edinburgh newspaper, (the Scotsman,)... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1839 - 524 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 as nothing to it. It can draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - 576 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 it can be " varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can " pick up a pin or... | |
 | 1843 - 350 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... | |
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