 OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation...  Nature; Addresses, and Lectures - Pàgina 1per Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 383 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pàgines
...sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy our original relation to the universe ? Why should a man have a poetry and philosophy of insight and... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1840 - 480 pàgines
...histories and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we through our eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation...tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not a history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, where floods of life stream around and through... | |
 | 1849 - 588 pàgines
...Scanderberg. and Gnstavns? fcnppose they were virtuous, did they wear out virtne ? Why should we not have a poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition. and a religion oi revelation to «*, and not the history of tlmirs t" In this manner Mr Rmerson diseourses to our... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - 1849 - 348 pàgines
...Scanderberg, and Gustavus P Suppose they were virtuous, did they wear out virtue P Why should we not have a poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition, and a religion of revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ?' In this manner Mr. Emerson discourses to our... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pàgines
...if not, thrown aside. This appears in his first book and in his last : " The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by a revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of... | |
 | Day Kellogg Lee - 1854 - 368 pàgines
...she took the volume and repeated this sentence as true and beautiful : " The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their...we also enjoy an original relation to the universe ?" Then Julia read the first chapter, on " Nature." Several criticisms were offered. Miss Mumby liked... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 410 pàgines
...sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theira ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pàgines
...if not, thrown aside. This appears in his first book and in his last : " The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face : we, through their...relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry ami philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by a revelation to us, and not the history... | |
 | 1864 - 744 pàgines
...sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we through their eyes. Why should not we, also, enjoy our original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight, and... | |
 | 1882 - 972 pàgines
...sepulchres of the fathers ; it writes biographies, histories, and criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we through their eyes. Why should we not also enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should we not have a poetry and philosophy... | |
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