 | Young people - 1877 - 696 sivua
...power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances it has become a thing stupendous alike 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, dis-tributed,... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 328 sivua
...power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force 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... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1878 - 312 sivua
...engine is a fine example of antithesis in thought, and, to a certain extent, in expression : " It has become a thing, stupendous alike for its force and...prodigious power which it can exert ; and the ease, precision and ductility with which it can he varied, distributed and applied. The trunk of an elephant,... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1878 - 432 sivua
...engine, which has commonly been ascribed to Lord Jeffrey, of Edinburgh : "It (the steam engine) has become a thing, stupendous alike for its force and...flexibility ; for the prodigious power which it can exort ; and the ease, precision, and ductility with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied.... | |
 | Historical reader - 1880 - 212 sivua
...power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable 'contrivance, it has become a thing 'stupendous alike for its force and...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... | |
 | Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 328 sivua
...power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and...power which it can exert and the ease and precision with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. embroider muslin and forge anchors, cut steel... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 824 sivua
...Its flexibility— for the prodiit oils power which it can ex. ri. and the ease, aud precision, ami ductility with which it can be varied, distributed and applied. The trunk of au elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It cun engrave a seal aud... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 448 sivua
...power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force 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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 sivua
...with a copious felicity of illustration, as in the following observations on the steam-engine: 'It has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and...prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, anil precision, and ductility with •which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of... | |
 | Hermann Lange - 1883 - 294 sivua
...at defiance. By his admirable contrivances* it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and flexibility, for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, precision, and ductility with which this power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of... | |
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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 that power can be varied, distributed, and applied.... 
