 | 1870 - 904 psl.
...criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an 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 - 712 psl.
...fathers. . . . The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" This language betrays clearly enough the conviction of Mr. Emerson as to the chief evils under... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 psl.
...generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an i original relation to the universe ? Why should not...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs 1 Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite... | |
 | 1875 - 402 psl.
...fathers. . . . The foregoing generation beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to 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... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 psl.
...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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 psl.
...criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite... | |
 | 1912 - 720 psl.
...Emerson's "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ?" The Transcendentalisms are a high type of Rigorist, active in our modern thought. But the... | |
 | 1880 - 492 psl.
...author complaining that our age is too retrospective, and writes biographies alone. " Why should not we enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should...poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition ? " Thus the book Emerson as the Founder of a Literature. SYDNEY SMITH wrote to Lord Grey, in 1818,... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 psl.
...criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face ; we through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the...and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Imbosomed for a season in Nature, whose... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1882 - 402 psl.
...criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods stream around and through us, and invite us,... | |
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The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by... 
