 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...  Massachusetts Quarterly Review - 215 psl.1849Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 psl.
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...of insight, and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of... | |
 | 1880 - 492 psl.
...author complaining that our age is too retrospective, and writes biographies alone. " Why should not we enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should...poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition ? " Thus the book Emerson as the Founder of a Literature. SYDNEY SMITH wrote to Lord Grey, in 1818,... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 psl.
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers ; it writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face...and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Imbosomed for a season in Nature, whose... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1882 - 402 psl.
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...of insight, and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods stream... | |
 | RALPH WALDO EMERSON - 1883 - 428 psl.
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1883 - 344 psl.
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...of insight, and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods stream... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 394 psl.
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whoso floods of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 392 psl.
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 658 psl.
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of... | |
 | James Platt - 1883 - 538 psl.
...through their eyes. Why should we not also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should we not have a poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition ; and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? " (EMEBSON.) The life of the future—socially, politically,... | |
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