 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...  Routledge's every boy's annual - Sivu 255tekijä(t) edmund rouledge - 1883Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1825 - 458 sivua
...become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility,— fur the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility...distributed, 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... | |
 | 1819 - 610 sivua
...become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, — for the prodigious powei which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility,...distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend an oak is аа nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses... | |
 | 1822 - 184 sivua
...and its flexibility, — for the prodigious power which it can uxert, and the ease, and precision, with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin, or tend an oak, is us nothing to it It can engrave the hide of a thin drinking... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 sivua
...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....distributed, 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... | |
 | 1824 - 492 sivua
...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...distributed, 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... | |
 | Englishman - 1824 - 420 sivua
...machinery may be placed in the compass of a closet. The variety and extent of its powers are wonderful. " The trunk of an elephant, which can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is nothing * Swartz of Cologne, 1340. to it. It can engrave a seal, or crush masses of metal like wax... | |
 | 1819 - 606 sivua
...become a tiling stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, — for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility,...distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or n ml an oak is аз nothing to it. It can engrave a eeal, and crush masses... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - 1826 - 202 sivua
...stupendous alike for its force and 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, or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1827 - 398 sivua
...has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and flexibility, — for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility...distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of... | |
 | 1828 - 400 sivua
...stupendous alike for its force and flexihility, for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, precision, and ductility with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. Thy trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pen or rend an oak, i* as nothing to it. Ft can engrave... | |
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