 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...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 or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it — draw out,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 418 pages
...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 it. It can engrave u seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it ; draw out, without... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1850 - 408 pages
...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 it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it; draw out, without... | |
 | Frederick Rowton - 1850 - 334 pages
...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 it. It can engrave " a seal, and crush obdurate masses of metal " before it ; draw out,... | |
 | Success - 1851 - 362 pages
...trunk of an elephant, it has been finely and truly said, 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 like wax before it,—draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer,—and lift a ship of war like a bauble... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...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 or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it — draw out,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 472 pages
...— 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 rend an oak, is as nothing to it It can engrave a seal and crush masses of obdurate metal before it, — draw out,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 pages
...— 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 rend an oak, is as nothing to it It can engrave a seal and crush masses of obdurate metal before it, — draw out,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...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 or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it — draw out,... | |
 | A. E. Pearce - 1851 - 116 pages
...alike for its force and for its flexibility, and of which the late Lord Jeffrey eloquently wrote, " 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 a ship of war like a bauble... | |
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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 in the air. 
