 | Sir William Fairbairn - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 450
...who, speaking of the steam-engine, says that — "It is a thing stupendous alike for its force and flexibility ; for the prodigious power which it can...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 - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 374
...who, speaking of the steam-engine, says that — "It is a thing stupendous alike for its force and flexibility ; for the prodigious power which it can...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... | |
 | Thomas Osmond Summers - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 200
...as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its powers 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 flexibility, for the prodigious... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 502
...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... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 292
...steamengine, which has commonly been ascribed to the late Lord Jeffrey : — " It " (the steam-engine) " has become a thing stupendous alike for its force...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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 800
...admirahle contrivance, it has hecome a thing stupendous alike for its foree and its flexihility — for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the...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 rend an oak,... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 656
...regulated, as to make it " capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate " manufactures, and its power so increased, as to set weight " 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...on errands round the heavens. — Quarterly Review. 3. Tun STEAM-ENGINE. — It has become a thirg stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility,...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 of... | |
 | Jane Marcet - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 630
...was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing alike stupendous for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 462
...so n'jnilated, as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity...be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of au elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it It can engrave a seal, and... | |
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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 it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The... 
