 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 war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge anchors, — cut steel into...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Sayfa 4631819Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | 1819 - 606 sayfa
...metal 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 muslin and forge anchors, — cut steel into ribbands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. It would be difficult to... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - 1826 - 202 sayfa
...reotals 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 5 cut steel into ribbons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the wind and waves." The necessity... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1827 - 398 sayfa
...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 56- NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF AIR. steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of... | |
 | 1823 - 944 sayfa
...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 muslin...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... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1828 - 368 sayfa
...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...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... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 sayfa
...wax 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 ribbands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. It would be difficult to... | |
 | Robert Stuart - 1829 - 372 sayfa
...thread as fine as a gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin, forge anchors, cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded...to estimate the value of the benefits which these inventions have conferred upon the country. There is no branch of industry that has not been indebted... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 sayfa
...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...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... | |
 | 1829 - 576 sayfa
...war like a hauhle in the air. It can emhroider muslins and forge anchors, cut steel into rihhands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. It would he difficult to estimate the value of the henefits which these inventions have conferred upon the country.... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1830 - 350 sayfa
...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 AND PROPERTIES OF AIR. steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury... | |
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