Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, כרך 5J. Hughes, Printer, 1873 The proceedings or notices of the member institutes of the society form part of the section "Proceedings" in each volume; lists of members are included in v. 1-41, 43-60, 64- |
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עמוד 8 - Gitche Manito, the Mighty, Said this to me in my vision. " I beheld, too, in that vision, All the secrets of the future, Of the distant days that shall be. I beheld the westward marches Of the unknown, crowded nations. All the land was full of people, Restless, struggling, toiling, striving, Speaking many tongues, yet feeling But one heart-beat in their bosoms. In the woodlands rang their axes, Smoked their towns in all their valleys, Over all the lakes and rivers Rushed their great canoes of thunder.
עמוד 445 - The same writer quotes St. Augustin and St. Thomas Aquinas, to the effect that, ' in the institution of nature, we do not look for miracles, but for the laws of nature.
עמוד 447 - And Reason now through number, time, and space, Darts the keen lustre of her serious eye, And learns, from facts compared, the laws to trace, Whose long progression leads to Deity.
עמוד 462 - No man can rise from ignorance to anything deserving to be called a complete grasp of any considerable branch of science, without receiving and discarding in succession many crude and incomplete notions, which, so far from injuring the truth in its ultimate reception, act as positive aids to its attainment by acquainting him with the symptoms of an insecure footing in his progress. To reach from the plain the loftiest summits of an Alpine country, many inferior eminences have to be scaled and relinquished...
עמוד 90 - His features are aquiline and striking ; but an overhanging upper lip, and a retreating forehead, on which his eyebrows wrinkled back when he lifted his deepsunken eyelids and penetrating eyes, produced a fatal effect on the good prestige arising from his first appearance. The great chieftain, the man able to lead others, and habituated to wield authority, was clear at first sight ; but the savage ferocity of the tiger, who would not scruple to use any means for the attainment of that power, the...
עמוד 35 - ... provision stores have outlived Maori tradition, and the natives can only conjecture whom they belonged to. Out of the centre of one of them which I have seen there is now growing a kauri tree one hundred and twenty feet high, and out of another a large totara. The outline of these pits is as perfect as the day they were dug, and the sides have not fallen in in the slightest degree, from which perhaps they have been preserved by the absence of frost, as well as by a beautiful coating of moss,...
עמוד 181 - ... is of a delicate pinkish tinge, just staining the white, spotted with brownish grey, with purplish blotches at the larger end. From a nest found at Arahura we have an egg that exactly resembles in its colour and markings that of Oriolus gallula, of Europe.
עמוד 98 - I was struck with wonder at the sight, but lost no time in selecting some of the most perfect of the bones, and then considered what was to be done with them and where to bestow them. I had a box in which my supplies for the journey were carried, this I emptied and filled with the bones instead to the amazement of my followers, who exclaimed "What is he doing? What can he possibly want with those old Moa bones!
עמוד 445 - Selection" acts, and indeed must act; but that still, in order to account for the production of known kinds of animals and plants, it requires to be supplemented by the action of some other natural law or laws as yet undiscovered.
עמוד 30 - They durst not approach the ship nearer than a stone's throw; and we often observed them playing on a kind of trumpet, to which we answered with the instruments that were on board our vessel. These people were of a colour between brown and yellow, their hair long, and almost as thick as that of the Japanese, combed up, and fixed on the top of their heads with a quill, or some such thing, that was thickest in the middle, in the very same manner that Japanese fastened their hair behind their heads.