 | Decoration and ornament - 1819 - 490 pages
...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 before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as line as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge... | |
 | 1825 - 458 pages
...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 like wax before it; draw...embroider muslin and forge anchors, — cut steel into ribbands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. " It would be difficult... | |
 | English essays - 1819 - 800 pages
...seal, and crush masses of obdurate netal like wax before it, draw out, without breaking, a thread at fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble...anchors, cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vesseU against the fury of the winds and waves. '• It would be difficult to estimate the value of... | |
 | 1819 - 610 pages
...pin or rend an oak is аа 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 n bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors, — cut steel into ribbands, and impel... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1819 - 708 pages
...an elephant that can pick op a pin or rend an oak is nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crash masses of obdurate metal like wax before it, draw out, without, breaking, a thread a« fine as gossamer, and lift a ship ofwar like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge... | |
 | 1820 - 496 pages
...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 before it , draw...ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of winds and waves. It would be difficult to estimate the value of the benefits which tbese inventions... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...which can pick vip a pin, or rend an oak, is nothing to it. It can. engrave a seal, or crush masses of metal like wax before it — draw out without breaking...as fine as gossamer, and lift a. ship of war like .1 bauble i'.uo the air; it can embroider imislinj and forge" anchors— cut steel into ribbands, and... | |
 | 1820 - 450 pages
...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 before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as a gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a baubje in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors,... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1821 - 444 pages
...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 before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as a gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge anchors... | |
 | Engineering - 1822 - 184 pages
...it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as a spider's, and lift up the largest weights like a bauble in. the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge anchors, — cut steel into thin and narrow stripes, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of th« winds and waves. It. would... | |
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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... 
