 By his admirable contrivance, 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. The...  The graduated series of reading-lesson books - Pagina 125door Graduated series - 1859Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1823 - 946 pagina’s
...should rather be described as its inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest...weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious... | |
 | 1842 - 634 pagina’s
...he should rather be described as its inventor ; for it was by him, that its action was so regulated, as to make it capable of being applied to the finest...increased, as to set weight and solidity at defiance. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is nothing to it. It can engrave a... | |
 | 1819 - 490 pagina’s
...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 ease and precision and ductility with which they can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend... | |
 | 1825 - 458 pagina’s
...inventor. It was by bis inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being dpplied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and...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... | |
 | 1819 - 780 pagina’s
...should rather be described as its inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest...weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious... | |
 | 1819 - 610 pagina’s
...should rather be described as its inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest...as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his ad* This notice of the character of Mr Watt appeared first in the Scotsman newspaper. It follows so... | |
 | 1819 - 708 pagina’s
...should rather be described as its inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and ils power so increased as to let weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it... | |
 | 1820 - 496 pagina’s
...should rather be described as its inventor. It was by his investigation that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest...weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupeadous alike for its force . and its flexibility; for the prodigious... | |
 | 1820 - 450 pagina’s
...should rather be described as its inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest...weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious... | |
 | 1820 - 494 pagina’s
...should rather be described as its iiiventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest...weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious... | |
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