 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 páginas
...weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, itlias become a thing stupendous nlike for its force and its flexibility, — for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease asd precision, and "ductility, with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of... | |
 | 1869 - 514 páginas
...Watt, in speaking of the steam engine, Lord Jeffrey said : "By his admirable contrivances it has become a thing stupendous, alike for its force and its flexibility,...prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, precision and ductility with which it can bo varied, distributed and applied. The trunk of an elephant,... | |
 | John Wells Foster - 1869 - 480 páginas
...defiance. It has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and flexibility,— for the prodigious power 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... | |
 | Missouri. State Board of Agriculture - 1870 - 592 páginas
...subject than to introduce the appropriate remarks of Francis Jeffrey. "The steam engine has become a thing stupendous) alike for its force and its flexibility,...prodigious power which it can exert and the ease, precision and ductility with which it can be varied, distributed and applied. The trunk of an elephant... | |
 | 1872 - 556 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 páginas
...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,...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... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1875 - 420 páginas
...lo Francis Jeffrey, Esquire, now Lord Jeffrey, of Edinburgh : 7 " It (the steam engine) has become a thing, stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious power whicL it can exert ; and the ease, precision, and ductility with which it can be varied, distributed,... | |
 | Hugues Charles S. Cassal, Théodore Karcher - 1876 - 312 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Young people - 1877 - 696 páginas
...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 power it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility with which it can be varied, dis-tributed,... | |
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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... 
