 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - Liczba stron: 270
...example. The subject is the steam engine. "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 like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors — cut steel... | |
 | 1829 - Liczba stron: 512
...Atlantic in fifteen days — and amidst a long list of other marvels, " engrave seals, forge anchors, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air." Nor has the moral world remained stationary, while the physical was undergoing such wonderful revolutions.... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1830 - Liczba stron: 350
...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 like a bauble in the air; It can embroider muslin and forge anchors,— rcut 5fo NATURE... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - Liczba stron: 424
...pin, or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before it, — draw out, without breaking,...embroider muslin and forge anchors ; cut steel into ribbands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves." And another application... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - Liczba stron: 436
...pin, or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before it, — draw out, without breaking,...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 - Liczba stron: 586
...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 in the air. It ran embroider muslin and forge anchors, cut steel into ribbons, and impel loaded... | |
 | Alexander Gordon - 1832 - Liczba stron: 236
...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 - Liczba stron: 470
...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 breaking a thread...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 - Liczba stron: 738
...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,... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1833 - Liczba stron: 370
...obdurate metal before it,— draw out, without breaking, a thread aa fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider rnuslin and forge anchors, — cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of... | |
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The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, 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 fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in... 
