 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 5per RALPH WALDO EMERSON - 1883Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pàgines
...work consists of eight short chapters, and an introduction altogether as brief. It begins manfully. Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres...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
...himself in the introduction to an exquisite volume entitled " Nature," published in Boston in 1836. " Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It unites biographies, histories and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to... | |
 | 1840 - 544 pàgines
...himself, in the introduction toan exquisite volume, entitled " Nature," published in Boston in 1836. " Our age is retrospective, it builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It unites biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pàgines
...languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres...biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generation^ beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy... | |
 | Day Kellogg Lee - 1854 - 378 pàgines
...fine. Julia was so pleased, she took the volume and repeated this sentence as true and beautiful: " The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...we also enjoy an original relation to the universe ?" Then Julia read the first chapter, on " Nature." Several criticisms were offered. Miss Mumby liked... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pàgines
...fit man they are accepted, if not, thrown aside. This appears in his first book and in his last : " The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...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
...emphasis that deprived, them of sleep. He brought the age to the bar of judgment. " Our age," he cried, "is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the...beheld God and nature face to face ; we through their eyee. Why should not we, also, enjoy our original relation to the universe ? Why should not we have... | |
 | 1882 - 972 pàgines
...hundred pages, in which he develops much of his ideal philosophy. In its opening words he said : " Our age is retrospective ; it builds the sepulchres...the fathers ; it writes biographies, histories, and criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we through their eyes. Why... | |
 | 1870 - 904 pàgines
...essay, entitled Nature, first published in 1836. We quote a few paragraphs from the introduction : " Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres...original relation to the universe ? Why should not \ve have a poetry and a philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pàgines
...languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres...foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; I we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why... | |
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