 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
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - 1903 - 466 psl.
...have " beheld God and nature face to face ; we only through their eyes. Why should not we," he says, " also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why...poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition ? " Thus the book begins, and on the very last page it ends, " Build, therefore, your own world ! "... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - 1903 - 378 psl.
...have " beheld God and nature face to face ; we only through their eyes. Why should not we," he says, " also enjoy an original relation to the universe ?...poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition ? " Thus the book begins, and on the very last page it ends, " Build, therefore, your own world ! "... | |
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1905 - 550 psl.
..."Our age is reduced to the sepulchre of the fathers; it writes biographies, histories, and criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face...also enjoy an original relation to the Universe?" He tells of the delight he feels in the presence of God's creation, and sees in it a source not merely... | |
 | Patrick Augustine Sheehan - 1906 - 372 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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1906 - 324 psl.
...in'American 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...of insight and -not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us and not the history of theirs?" It took eleven years to sell five hundred copies of... | |
 | John Smith Harrison - 1910 - 348 psl.
...systematic philosophy; what he wanted above all things was a fresh contact with spiritual realities. "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?" 1 The mystical 1 Complete Works, L, 3. teaching of... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1913 - 462 psl.
...Emerson's career. He struck the key-note of all his writing in his essay on ' Nature,' when he said : ' 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 ? ' This was Emerson's watchword from the beginning... | |
 | Woodbridge Riley - 1915 - 390 psl.
...challenge to originality resembles the first address of Emerson, in this very spot, a generation before. " Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? " asks the transcendentalist. " Why should not we have a philosophy of insight and not of tradition... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1917 - 588 psl.
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face...poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition ? " The last quotation might well be an introduction to Emerson's second work, The American Scholar... | |
 | Martin Middeke - 2002 - 456 psl.
..."Nature". "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?"22 Emerson nimmt hier Nietzsches Kritik an der Geschichtsverfallenheit... | |
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