 | Francis Wayland - 1857 - 292 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,...a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before itj draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as a gossamer, and lift up a ship of war, like a bauble,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1857 - 464 sivua
...— and am dust." Again. In the description of the power of the steam-engine, a late writer says : " The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or...— 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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 sivua
...ease, and precision, and ductility, with which that power can he varicd, distrihuted, and applicd. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or...oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and erush masses of ohdurate metal hefore it — draw out, without hreaking, a thread as fine as gossamer,... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1858 - 656 sivua
...was " the great improver of the steam-engine ; but, in truth, as to " all that is admirable in ite structure, or vast in its utility, " he should rather...draw out, without breaking, a " thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a " bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge " anchors,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 480 sivua
...alike for its force and its flexibility, — for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the case and precision and ductility with which it can be varied,...it; 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 - 1860 - 288 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 of war... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1858 - 524 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... | |
 | 1858 - 348 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... | |
 | Jane Marcet - 1858 - 630 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 a gossamer, and lift a ship of... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 652 sivua
...drew will always remain unsurpassed in fidelity and power, — " fortunately needs no comme" moration of ours ; for he that bore it survived to see it "...draw out, without breaking, a " thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a " bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge " anchors,... | |
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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... 
