 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 472 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...crush masses of obdurate metal before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of war like a bauble in the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 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...crush masses of obdurate metal before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and I iff up a ship of war like a bauble in the... | |
 | Success - 1851 - 362 pages
...accounted miracles and impossibilities. ' The trunk of an elephant, it has been finely and truly said, that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is as nothing...engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before it,—draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer,—and lift a ship of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...whieh that power ean be varied, distributed, and applied. The - trunk of an elephant, that ean piek up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It ean engrave a seal, and erush masses of obdurate metal before it — draw out, without breaking, a... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 620 pages
...precision and ductility with wnil'h it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an eleHiirmt, that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is as nothing...and crush masses of obdurate metal before it ; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of wai like a banble in the... | |
 | George Grant (author of Panorama of science.) - 1852 - 268 pages
...accounted miraculous and impossible. " The trunk of an elephant," it has been finely and truly said, " that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, " is as nothing...engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before it — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of... | |
 | Popular educator - 1852 - 842 pages
...while its power may be so increased as to se weight and solidity at defiance. The trunk of an elephan that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. 1 ran engrave a seal, or crush a mass of iron. It can draw out tilnment, without breaking, as fine... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1852 - 446 pages
...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 pi/1 or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal... | |
 | Harry Howells Horton - 1853 - 310 pages
...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...crush masses of obdurate metal before it — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air.... | |
 | Harry Howells Horton - 1853 - 304 pages
...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...and crush masses of obdurate metal before it— draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air.... | |
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By 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... 
