 | Robert Stuart - 1829 - 372 стор.
...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 before it; draws out without breaking a thread as fine as a gossamer, and lift a ship of war... | |
 | 1829 - 512 стор.
...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 - 350 стор.
...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...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 - 424 стор.
...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 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 gossamer, — and lift a ship... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 432 стор.
...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 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 gossamer, — and lift a ship... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 438 стор.
...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 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 gossamer, — and lift a ship... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 436 стор.
...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, a 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 стор.
...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... | |
 | Alexander Gordon - 1832 - 236 стор.
...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 стор.
...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...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... | |
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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... 
