 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 pàgines
...thought, and the words of its introduction announced that its author had broken with the past. " Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the...religion by revelation to us and not the history of theirs?" It took eleven years to sell five hundred copies of this little book. But the year following... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 pàgines
...the words of its introduction announced that its author had broken with the past. " Why should riot we also enjoy an original relation to the universe...religion by revelation to us and not the history of theirs?" It took eleven years to sell five hundred copies of this little book. But the year following... | |
 | William Hague - 1888 - 386 pàgines
...generations beheld God and Nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we enjoy also an original relation to the universe? Why should not...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? " GENERAL RE-UNION IN PROVIDENCE, RI During the following year (1837), soon after my removal... | |
 | 1888 - 1004 pàgines
...foregoinggenerations," he writes, "beheld God face to face ; we, through their eyes ; why should not we enjoy also an original relation to the universe ? Why should...religion by revelation to us and not the history of theirs?" It is this doctrine of self-reliance, illustrated by fresh examples, enforced under new aspects,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 572 pàgines
...generations,' he writes, ' beheld God face to face ; we, through their eyes ; why should not we enjoy also an original relation to the universe ? Why should...religion by revelation to us and not the history of theirs ? ' It is this doctrine of selfreliance, illustrated by fresh examples, enforced under new aspects,... | |
 | 1888 - 632 pàgines
...generations," he writes, " beheld God face to face ; we, through their eyes; why should not we enjoy also an original relation to the universe? Why should not...religion by revelation to us and not the history of theirs ? " It is this doctrine of self-reliance, illustrated by fresh examples, enforced under new... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 296 pàgines
...thought, and the words of its introduction announced that its author had broken with the past. "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the...religion by revelation to us and not the history of theirs?" It took eleven years to sell five hundred copies of this little book. But the year following... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 pàgines
..."Nature." " The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? " " Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields, — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 656 pàgines
...criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 pàgines
..."Nature." "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? " " Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields, — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic... | |
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The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by... 
