 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
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1830 - 350 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... | |
 | 1843 - 854 sivua
...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...distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up ti. pin or rend an oak is as nothing to it. It can engrai« a seal, and crash masses... | |
 | 1834 - 614 sivua
...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...distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin, or rend an oakj is •aS nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1837 - 502 sivua
...alike for its force and its 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... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1837 - 524 sivua
...alike for its force and its 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1838 - 266 sivua
...that, " By his admirable contrivances, and those of Mr. Fulton, it has become a thing alike stupendous for its force and its flexibility; for the prodigious...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... | |
 | François Arago - 1839 - 154 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... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - 574 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... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - 576 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1842 - 278 sivua
...and those of Mr. Fulton, it has become a thing alike stupendous for its force and its flexihility ; for the prodigious power it can exert, and the ease,...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... | |
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