 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
 | Herman Friedrich Grimm - 1886 - 332 psl.
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and a philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1886 - 628 psl.
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face...through their eyes. "Why should not we also enjoy our original relation to the'universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight, and... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - 572 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 psl.
...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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 psl.
...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...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... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1883 - 614 psl.
...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 enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and a philosophy of insight... | |
 | 1888 - 632 psl.
...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...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us and not the history of theirs ? " It is this doctrine of self-reliance, illustrated... | |
 | 1888 - 1004 psl.
...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...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us and not the history of theirs?" It is this doctrine of self-reliance, illustrated... | |
 | William Hague - 1888 - 386 psl.
...new book the writer appealed to the century against the primary claim of Christianity, exclaiming, " The foregoing 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 we have a poetry and philosophy of... | |
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