 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
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1843 - 840 pages
...his 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... | |
 | 1843 - 856 pages
...admirable contrivances it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, tor 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... | |
 | Edward Morris - 1844 - 200 pages
...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...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 like wax before it, —... | |
 | Edward Morris - 1844 - 228 pages
...brilliant 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... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 622 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 - 1844 - 276 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... | |
 | Edward Morris - 1844 - 206 pages
...become a thing stupendous, alike for its force and its flexibility, for the prodigious power whicli 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... | |
 | 1845 - 1368 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 Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...Engine. The steam engine 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 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,... | |
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