 | Europe - 1823 - 946 pages
...defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious power which it can...which they can be 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,... | |
 | Decoration and ornament - 1819 - 490 pages
...By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and Ilex bility; for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the...which they can be 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,... | |
 | 1825 - 458 pages
...admirable contrivance*, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility,— fur 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 of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1819 - 708 pages
...defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing ttupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious power which it can...which they can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick op a pin or rend an oak is nothing to it. It can engrave a seal,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1819 - 780 pages
...a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious power which it cau exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility,...which they can be 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,... | |
 | 1819 - 610 pages
...has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, — for the prodigious powei which 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... | |
 | 1820 - 496 pages
...defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupeadous alike for its force . and its flexibility; for the prodigious power which it can...which they can be 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... | |
 | 1820 - 450 pages
...defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious power which it can...which they can be 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,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1820 - 494 pages
...it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious powers which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and...which they can be 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,... | |
 | 1820 - 482 pages
...it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious powers which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and...which they can be 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,... | |
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By his admirable contrivances, 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.... 
