 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
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1905 - 386 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 - 354 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 - 291 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 - 323 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... | |
 | Woodbridge Riley - 1915 - 373 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 - 557 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 - 439 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... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 2002 - 1152 psl.
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. u revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of... | |
 | Jeffrey P. Sklansky - 2002 - 313 psl.
...(1836), Emerson's spectacular philosophical debut, define the central problem he set for his readers: "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?"30 The universe, according to Emerson, comprised "Nature and the Soul." By "nature," then,... | |
 | Yunte Huang - 2002 - 209 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" (Essays 7). 31. See Marjorie Perloff, The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound... | |
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