 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 578 psl.
...his last: "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...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by a revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 psl.
...his last: "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...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by a revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1913 - 462 psl.
...said : ' 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 was Emerson's watchword from the beginning to the end. He did not disparage the past.... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1917 - 588 psl.
...criticisms. 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...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... | |
 | Alastair Shannon - 1920 - 394 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?" EMERSON (Introduction to Essay on Nature). " Leave, therefore, boldly, though not irreverently,... | |
 | Johan Huizinga - 1920 - 280 psl.
...„Why should we not also enjoy an original relation to the uni verse ? Why should not wehaveapoetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition and...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? . . . The sun shines to-day also." Bij Whitman vindt men dat sentiment op bijna iedere bladzijde.... | |
 | John William Frazer - 1921 - 150 psl.
...applicable to our times as to his, "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 we not have a poetry and a philosophy of insight instead of traditions, and religion by revelation... | |
 | Clifford Smyth - 1925 - 850 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 aiound and through us, and invite... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 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... | |
 | Eduardo Cadava - 1997 - 276 psl.
...he presents a negative grammatical and rhetorical structure that entangles these two moments: "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" Emerson's "Why should not we . . ." is a rhetorical form of inversion which ironizes the representation... | |
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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... 
