Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Volumen25

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Royal Society of New Zealand., 1893
Includes proceedings of member institutes of the Society and of the Society's Science Congress through v. 84, 1956/57.
 

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Página 305 - the pathless woods; There is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar : I love not Man tho less, but Nature more.
Página 299 - Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir. KEATS, " Hyperion.
Página 426 - mean, so poor; Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.
Página 494 - is exactly the same as that of light and radiant heat. They, like sound, are wave-motions; like sound they diffuse themselves in space, diminishing in intensity according to the same law
Página 304 - Peter Bell " :— A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more. Of
Página 303 - it,— In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
Página 479 - broad, made of wood, stone, or ivory, finely polished, which is hung about the neck by fine threads of twisted hair, doubled sometimes a hundredfold. Instead of this ornament, some of them
Página 299 - No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung ; Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. Majestic silence
Página 494 - of the rod, only the hand, which feels the strokes when brought within their reach. The vibrations become more rapid, till when they reach the number of thirty-two in a second a deep hum strikes my ear
Página 79 - growing in dense masses of often several feet in diameter. The holes usually run straight inward for a foot or more, then turn sharply to the right or left, parallel with the hillside, thence downward, often doubling once or twice upon themselves, and communicating with other entrances. At the bottom is an enlarged cavity, lined with

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