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
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 288 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... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 574 psl.
...is 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 revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? " " Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 656 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 - 1892 - 616 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 revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? " " Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields,... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 psl.
...is 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 revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? " " Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields,... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 psl.
...is 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...philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion hy revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? " " Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields,... | |
| 1894 - 444 psl.
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchers of our fathers. It writes biographies, history and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face...philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion of revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods... | |
| Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1894 - 200 psl.
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season... | |
| Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1896 - 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, whose floods of... | |
| Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1896 - 396 psl.
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of iiisight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed... | |
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