Technology
(Golder Project subject term)
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Canto Fourth in The New Zealand Survey
- where slimy eels / Delight to burrow, as they there abound; / Where much ingenious enterprise is shewn / By natives in the capture of such prey!
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Lines — On hearing of the Demise of Dr. F. Logan, R.N., May 24, 1862, Aged 84 in The New Zealand Survey
- In his younger days New Zealand was reckoned beyond the reach of civilization! and there were no such things as ocean steamers, railway trains, nor electric telegraphs; let the present generation thus appreciate the improvements now enjoyed.
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Canto Fifth in The New Zealand Survey
- Their instruments of warfare, or of chase, / On sea or land, when hunting for their food, / In absence of what commerce might supply; / Such, shews deep thought in the contrivance formed, / Or happy hit upon the plan pursued, / When urged by stern necessity, by those / Who may have been their sires, put to their shifts, / When like some wreck cast on these shores unknown, / With nothing but their hands, their helpless hands, / To gain a sustenance, though mean, in aught / The nature of their new abode might yield; / And so their offspring train, that they alike / In wildest hardihood themselves might fend!
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Preface in The New Zealand Survey
- with no small interest too can we regard the approach of Enterprize and Industry, each, as with bridegroom integrity, come to divest Nature of those solitary weeds in which she has long been arrayed, in order to deck her with the garb of art, thereby adding fresh beauties to her native comeliness!
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Canto Second in The New Zealand Survey
- Aye ev’n at such a time, those southern wastes / Unknown, uncalled for lay; when northern gales / And briny waters have been seized upon, / As some necessity or other cause / Had urged, and them to active service brought, / Like fellow bondsmen; each his task to do, / In forwarding some merchant’s laden’d bark, / Advancing much his interests, and the weal / Of such communities of sea-girt isles; / (The sea, the highway chief of seaboard states; / When seamanship was rude, and crafts but small, / Long voyages were made in sight of land!)— / Or they have been in requisition called / For warriors’ gallies, as they sped to explore / New fields for conquest, in their lust for power!
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Canto Second in The New Zealand Survey
- So here displayed / Are num’rous products of the human mind, / All proving immortality in man! / In such an active principle evolves / A struggling strife to rise to something great! / Thus stern endeavours to achieve a name / Cause many works to be produced, ordained / By providence to benefit the race / Of man, in his progression from a low / To higher state of being, upon earth. / Such works, results of lab’ring thoughts, while hands
- how much the works of industry / Must have increased, and those, how much improved, / As one age on another has advanced; / So the barbarian here is skill displays / According as necessities would urge, / Though somewhat rude compared to what is shewn / By the sage artizan, yet much is seen / That might surpass th’ adept would means allow, / As proof that he’s a unit of our race!—
- progression’s nature, in the arts / Of life, so beneficial for mankind!— / Yea, all revealing to th’ mind / The ways of Providence,—how He pourtrays / On this, or other mind of chosen ones / Some problem to be solved, if not in full, / Yet partly, as their finitude can reach!— / Thus such inventions shewn, either for power / Concentrated, much weakness to assist; / Or such as would out-strip the lightning’s speed; / Bespeak great blessings, making due descent / In course of time, and calculated all / For lessening oppressions griefs and groans / And aiding to the happiness of man!
- industry’s progression will declare, / How the rude mattock primitively used / To till the ground, has moulded been to ploughs, / Thus bringing bestial labour to assist / In time of need! The sickle too must yield / To other strange contrivances to reap / The ripened grain, where much of toil is saved! / In means of war, the sling was reckoned once / A grand discovery to assist the arm / In hurling stones against a coming foe; / Next came the archer, and with his long bow
- Whatever scheme on which the mind’s engaged / In active labour to unfold its web / Of intricacies, while the attempt is made, / With failure often meeting, yet that scheme
- How varied other works around display’d / Of ornament, whose elegance bespeak / Much cultivated taste of those who such / Devised, or patronised, as others would / Man’s sternness for utility; thus Art, / Like a sweet sister Grace, as handmaid to / Broad shoulder’d Industry of rougher mould, / Her trust fulfils, endeavoring to smooth / Th’ asperities still left our nature’s face; / And clothes that nakedness which oft appears / As the result of man’s primeval sin!— / While multiplying much of beauty left, / As worthy admiration, tending all / To cheer from melancholy’s painful glooms!
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Canto I in The New Zealand Survey
- If we look on the map of the Southern Hemisphere one may easily perceive that it requires no great amount of prescience (especially to a mind of thought and enterprize, even although such spirit of enterprize may not have the power or means to put thought in a practical or tangible form) to see and shew to others how New Zealand shall yet become the Great Britain of the South. Take into consideration the genial climate of New Zealand, then its extensive seaboard, its numerous harbours and navigable rivers, such that may be much improved upon, and again its multitude of inland never failing streams, many of them well adapted, with little expense or trouble, for the driving of any kind of machinery for manufacturing purposes, where perhaps steam engines would be of less service through the want of a cheap supply of coal, should such prove to be scarce. Those streams with their waterfalls and rapids, how easily could they be brought into actual service in aiding the enterprize and industry of those who may yet discover their interests lying in that direction; so that instead of sending the wool of the country away to be spun and manufactured elsewhere—only to be brought back again with heavy charges attached,—such could be spun and manufactured here, to be dispersed among markets elsewhere. Standing on this point of view and looking toward the numerous islands and their populations, on the vast Pacific ocean, and taking into consideration the extensive field of wealth there will be to work upon, in the development of their resources, from which every kind of raw material in cotton and other produce may be had to be manufactured in New Zealand for the markets of the southern world. On the one hand, not only see the naked wants of the Pacific islanders, but also see the whole
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Canto Third in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- Hard, hard is such a case: adversity / Would seize him as the victim of its sport,
- But oft it haps, ’midbouyant hopes of bliss, / View’d in the future, charming to behold, / Like telescopic scenes, for beauty’s sheen, / That wayward things will yet one’s path beset, / ’S ifProvidence had doom’d his lot, to be / Far otherwise, than what he for himself / Had chosen; or the one on whom his heart / Is fix’d, is not appointed as—“mine own!”
- Now, to illustrate such a doctrine given. / Permit the Muse such instances to give / That best can stir th’ affections of the heart,— / The best affections bent on virtue’s course / Which best accord with Heaven’s eternal truth!
- So had it been with Alliquis, and his / Devoted Anna in minority: / But through some secretly concocted plan, / Which none but ardent lovers can devise; / As if some spirit telegram had given
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Canto Sixth in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- Love must have some choice object upon which / To rest affections, as its nature craves / This gracious privilege, to exercise / Its calling, in good deeds; as if t’admire / The likeness of its Father, in itself / As in a mirror shewn, with purest grace.
- In man, or womanhood’s maturity, / If none of one’s own nature can be found / T’absorb the love-o’erflowings of the heart, / In fond caressings bladishments and praise; / They must look round, if only but find / Some bestial pet, on which they lavish may / Their surplus of affections!—Such oft proves / A precious acquisition to the one, / Who has not met yet with a social friend, / Her feelings to reciprocate. This source / Of fond enjoyment has its moral, though
- The mind, couvulsed by ardent passions, seems / Like a tempestuous hurricane, enraged, / Beyond control. Such aberration from / The calm composure of truth’s confidence / Tends sadly to turn reason upside down!— / Love changed to hatred, is, as the meek lamb
- ’Tis well, when grieved by unrequited love, / The mind in other things diversion finds, / To give relief; such acts the safety-valve, / By which all surplus feelings are dispell’d, / Which gen’rated have been by the rebuff; / Such takes up the attention, keeps the mind / From brooding o’er all injuries sustain’d; / And turns its energies to other calls, / As, solving problems of another kind, / Full quite as beneficial to the weal / Of self, as in the end ’tis to the world: / For many good inventions have arisen / From slighted love, which else had scarcely been! / Thus, science a retreat has sometimes proved / For love-vex’d minds, who would its umbrage seek;
- The ideal prize gave pleasue, while it was
- Some lonely Poet, though he deeply feels / His nature fraught with Love’s most potent power, / Yet has not found a sympathizing heart, / In some one, who might comprehend his thoughts, / He awkwardly expresses; so must fail / T’ impress, as he himself feels love-imprest; / His seriousness befool’d, his heart much pain’d, / He seeks his comforts at the copious spring / Of thought, within his soul—a precions gift, / Of God, when rightly used;—and thus the Muse / Becomes his safety valve, to let off cares, / In plaintive song, or other nobler strains; / When otherwise, such cares his heart had rent
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A Lay on Wanganui in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- What now is seen, is prelude mere / Of what in future may occur / As shipping large may hither steer / With merchandise without demur; / Like that upon the Thames, or Clyde, / Which would make northern Britain great;— / When science makes this stream “the pride” / Of other days, in prosprous state!
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Canto Fourth in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- And next, are she had time to rise, in act / Of courtesy, a stranger to receive,— / The true original of that photograph, / She wore upon her heart, knelt by her side!
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Prospective in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- The next work, if Providence will allow, I intend bringing before the public, will be of a different description of philosophy, viz. The Philosophy of Thought, a Poem, in two Cantos: with a variety of other poems and lyrics of an interesting kind; the result of solitary hours in times gone by, before I constructed my amateur press. The work will be of the same form as this, with multum in parvo, and probably about the same size. If circumstances will allow, I will try to have it ready by about the beginning of January next.—I remember seeing in one of our local newspapers, some time ago, a notice of a small work, of some 96 pages, which said–“The binding was done by Mr.——, and the printing was done at our jobbing office;”—but not a word of any kind was said about the spirit of the Author, or to give a welcome to an addition to our local literature! As regards this book, both the printing and the binding have been done by the Author himself, in each case, as an amateur. As the printing of this work consisted in much of experiment; I would crave the indulgence of friends: but having made considerable improvements in the press, I hope in future to shew a better typography;
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Other Collections
The following collections may have holdings relevant to "Technology":
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
- Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
- National Library of New Zealand, which has extensive collections of published material.
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
- nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.