 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...  Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c - Seite 2221819Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Marcius Willson - 1861 - 550 Seiten
...exert', and the ease, precision, and ductility with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied1. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin' or rend an oak1, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal', and crush masses of obdurate metal before it7 ;... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1861 - 488 Seiten
...it has become a thing alike stupendous 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, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin, or rend... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 Seiten
...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. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1863 - 898 Seiten
...his admirable contrivances, 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 trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1863 - 874 Seiten
...his admirable contrivances, 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 trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 328 Seiten
...contrivance it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility; for the prodis;ious power which it can exert, 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... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - 1864 - 468 Seiten
...of the steam-engine, says that—' It is a tiling stupendous alike for its force and 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... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - 1864 - 472 Seiten
...of the steam-engine, Bays that — ' It is a thing stupendous alike for its force and 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... | |
 | Illinois State Agricultural Society - 1865 - 1022 Seiten
...flexibility, for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, precision and ductility with which it can be varied, distributed and applied. The trunk...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 oat, without... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 Seiten
...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. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin... | |
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