 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...  The Massachusetts Quarterly Review - 215 psl.1849Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | 1869
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...insight, and not of tradition ; and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? This is criticism. But there is a difference between... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870
...biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; I we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...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... | |
 | 1870
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...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... | |
 | 1874
...words are significant : " Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchers of the fathers. . . . The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...insight, and not of tradition ; and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" This language betrays clearly enough the conviction... | |
 | 1875
...: "Our age is retrospective. It built the sepulchers of the fathers. . . . The foregoing generation beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their...the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosphy of insight, and not of tradition ; and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the \_^J fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an i original relation to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and... | |
 | Monday Club (Boston). - 1893
...The words of Emerson are true: " Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchers of the fathers. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes." Occasionally we leave the past and dream of a God that is to be. We are going to him. We are to see... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878
...through their eyes. Why ehould not we also enjoy our original relation to the universe? Why ehould not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition : an:5 a religion by revelation to us, and not a history et theirs? Emboeomed for a season In nature,... | |
 | 1912
...that intellectual freedom which ignited all Europe, spread to America, expressed itself in Emerson's "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 ?" The Transcendentalisms are a high type of Rigorist,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880
...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... | |
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