 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1830 - 350 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 before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of war... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 436 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...thread as fine as gossamer, — and lift a ship of warlike a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors ; cut steel into ribbands, and... | |
 | 1831 - 586 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 — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bubble... | |
 | Alexander Gordon - 1832 - 236 pages
...a machine by the engineer, so as to maintain the power which can " engrave a seal, and crush a mass 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 in the air;" which " can embroider muslin, forge anchors, cut steel into... | |
 | 1833 - 470 pages
...Gordon says and quotes, " so as to maintain the power which can ' engrave a seal, and crush a mass of obdurate metal, like wax before it; draw out without...and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air;' which ' can embroider muslin, forge anchors, cut steel into ribands,' and impel itself against the... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1833 - 738 pages
...to it.. 'It can engrave a seal, and crush ruasses of pbdurate metal lit« wa* — draw out, wilhuut breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and. lift a ship of war like a bub3)Ie .in (the air, — rit 'can eaibroiiler. muslin and forge anchors,— rcul st«el into, ribbons,... | |
 | Alexander Gordon - 1834 - 376 pages
...a machine by the engineer, so as to maintain the power which can " engrave a seal, and crush a mass of obdurate metal like wax before it ; draw out without...breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship-ofwar like a bauble in the air ; " which " can embroider muslin, forge anchors, cut steel into... | |
 | 1834 - 614 pages
...varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin, or rend an oakj is •aS nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it; draw out without breaking a thread as tine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of war like a... | |
 | 1834 - 438 pages
...its force and its flexibility. 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 metals like wax before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 pages
...defiance. By his admirable contrivances, and those of a kindred and lamented genius in America,* it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and...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... | |
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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. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors, cut steel into ribbons, and impel... 
