 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 into...  The Roads and Railroads, Vehicles, and Modes of Travelling, of Ancient and ... - Pàgina 237per Roads - 1839 - 340 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1842 - 634 pàgines
...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. It can embroider...loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. Mr. Jeffrey, a countryman of Mr. Watt, has passed a very warm eulogy on his character and efforts.... | |
 | 1821 - 444 pàgines
...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...ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the wind and waves. 1 See an interesting account of this aid the former light-honses on the Edystone Rock,... | |
 | Colin MacKenzie - 1821 - 724 pàgines
...sun ; it can draw out, without breaking, a thread an fine as a gossamer, and lift a ship of war Eke a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge...impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and wave*." Hi I &.SJ i :; w BNj 5 s 5 a. r s 2 — 2 e 5 - : •a Hill v; sw "-".I tin <&T -> t». ^ f.... | |
 | Colin Mackenzie - 1822 - 774 pàgines
...sun ; it can draw out, without breaking, a. thread as fine as a gossamer, and lift a ship of war Tike a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge...vessels against the fury of the winds and waves." The powers of steam are becoming more known every day. Even typograi.ny has received its wonderful... | |
 | 1824 - 492 pàgines
...war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge anchors ; cut steel into ribbands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves ! " It has increased indefinitely the mass of human comforts and enjoyments, and rendered cheap and accessible,... | |
 | John S Skinner - 1825 - 436 pàgines
...like wax before the sun; it can 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...vessels against the fury of the winds and waves." eyes or hollows.—4th. That the from one point on the top. shoots start part of the country, in that... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1827 - 398 pàgines
...bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors,— cut 56- NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF AIR. steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned ; completed... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1828 - 368 pàgines
...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...vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned ; completed... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 944 pàgines
...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. It can embroider...It would be difficult to estimate the value of the bem fits which these inventions have conferred upon the country. There is no branch of industry that... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 pàgines
...Antithesis, I give the following example. The subject is the steam engine. "It can engrave a seal, and'crush masses of obdurate metal before it ; draw out without...loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. " A second example, more finished in its composition, is from Beattie on poetry, 15 " In the crowded... | |
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