 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 - 1883 - 388 psl.
...retrospeetive. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographics, historics, and eriticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we through thcir eyes. AVhy should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have... | |
 | Irish ecclesiastical record - 1884 - 840 psl.
...existing presentments of the ' good old story ; ' " and in the introduction to his Essays he says ; " 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 - 1884 - 398 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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 488 psl.
...the same thought in the Preface to " The Excursion " that we find in the Introduction to " Nature." " The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by reve lation to us, and not the history of theirs ? " "Paradise and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields... | |
 | 1884 - 354 psl.
...of the soul under the soul's eternal forms, with the soul's self-vouching and inimitable accent ? " 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? Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 psl.
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe1 Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion... | |
 | William Hague - 1884 - 84 psl.
...book, the writer appealed to the century against the primary claim of Christianity, exclaiming : " The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face...face ; we, through their eyes : why should not we enjoy also an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1884 - 488 psl.
...original relations with God. It is the same spirit as that of the opening lines of " Nature : " — "The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face ; we through their eyes. Why should not wo also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not wo have a poetry and philosophy... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1885 - 530 psl.
...their eyes. Why should not wo also enjoy an original relation to the universe 1 Why should not wo liave a poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition ; and a religion by revelation to us, and not tho history of theirs 1 . . . The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1886 - 568 psl.
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, criticisms. 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 ? As a plant on the earth, so man rests on the bosom... | |
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