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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.... "
The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated: With an Account of Its Invention ... - Page 316
by Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - 535 pages
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 12

1823 - 946 pages
...and its 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...the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which they can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend...
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Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c

1819 - 490 pages
...By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and Ilex bility; for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease and precision and ductility with which they can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend...
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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 5

1825 - 458 pages
...and most delicate manufactures, and its 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 its flexibility,— fur the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility with which...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 2; Volume 126

1819 - 708 pages
...let weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing ttupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the...the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which they can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick op a pin or rend...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 2; Volume 126

1819 - 780 pages
...and its 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...its flexibility ; for the prodigious power which it cau exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which they can be varied, distributed,...
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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of ..., Volume 5

1819 - 610 pages
...discover that they both proceed from the sanie eloquent and discriminating pen. mirable t-on tri vanees, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, — for the prodigious powei which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which it can be varied,...
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The Quarterly Journal, Volume 8

1820 - 450 pages
...and its 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...the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which they can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend...
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 6

1820 - 496 pages
...set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupeadous alike for its force . and its flexibility; for the...the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which they can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Volume 4

1820 - 494 pages
...and its 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 powers which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which they can be varied,...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary, Volume 4

1820 - 494 pages
...and its 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 powers which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which they can be varied,...
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