 ... 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 trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to...  Routledge's every boy's annual - Sivu 255tekijä(t) edmund rouledge - 1883Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1845 - 1368 sivua
...rend an oak, is as 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...embroider muslin, and forge anchors, cut steel into ribbands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves." In the earlier part of... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 sivua
...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 of obdurate...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, cut steel into... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 sivua
...writer says : " 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 of obdurate...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, — cut steel... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 sivua
...writer says : " 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 of obdurate...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, — cut steel... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1846 - 330 sivua
...application of Antithesis. The subject of the first, is the steam engine; of the second, poetry. 1. " It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate...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—cut steel into... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 756 sivua
...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 of obdurate metal before it—draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble... | |
 | Frederick ROWTON - 1846 - 366 sivua
...a pin, or " rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave " a seal, and crush obdurate masses of metal " before it — draw out, without breaking, a thread " as fine as a gossamer, and lift up a ship of war " like a bauble in the air. It can embroider " muslin, and forge... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 754 sivua
...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 of obdurate metal before it—draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 sivua
...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 of obdurate...like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin aiid forge anchors — cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 418 sivua
...trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave u seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it...without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of wai like a bauble in the air. It can embrpider muslin, and forge anchors ; cut steel into... | |
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