 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
 | James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard - 1909
...contrivance it has become 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... | |
 | 1892
...it 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 ж pin or rend an oak, is nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of... | |
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