 | Francis Wayland - Economics - 1857 - 292 pages
...; 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...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 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...engrave a seal and crush masses of obdurate metal before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of war like a... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1857 - 800 pages
...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 - Inventors - 1858 - 656 pages
...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...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 "... | |
 | Henry Howe - Technology & Engineering - 1858 - 524 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1860 - 288 pages
...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... | |
 | Jane Marcet - 1858 - 630 pages
...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 - Inventors - 1859 - 440 pages
...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...a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as a gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1859 - 450 pages
...for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the case and precision and ductility with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk...a seal, and crush masses of ob'durate metal before it ; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of war like a bauble... | |
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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.... 
