 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 380 sivua
...varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick np a pin, or rend an oak, is nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metals like wax before it ; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1827 - 398 sivua
...varied, 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...— draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors,—... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 sivua
...varied, 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 obdurate metal like wax before it, draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of... | |
 | 1829 - 576 sivua
...it can exert, and the case and precision, and ductility, with which it can he varied, distrihuted, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick...to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of ohdurate metal like wax hefore it, draw out, without hreaking a thread, as fine as gossamer, and lift... | |
 | Robert Stuart - 1829 - 372 sivua
...varied, 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 obdurate metal like wax before it; draws out without breaking a thread as fine as a gossamer, and lift a ship of war... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1830 - 350 sivua
...varied, 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...— draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of war like a bauble in the air; It can embroider muslin and forge anchors,—... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 432 sivua
...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 438 sivua
...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 424 sivua
...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... | |
 | 1831 - 586 sivua
...varied, 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 obdurate metal like wax — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like... | |
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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 it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The... 
