 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...  Popular Science Monthly - Stran 1361911Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 strani
...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 our original relation to the universe ? Why should a man have a poetry and philosophy of insight and... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 strani
...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 to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 strani
...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 to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition; and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 strani
...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 to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 strani
...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 to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 strani
...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 to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and... | |
 | 1849 - 448 strani
...This appears in his first book and in 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 universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and... | |
 | Day Kellogg Lee - 1854 - 368 strani
...and repeated this sentence as true and beautiful : " 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 ?" Then Julia read the first chapter, on " Nature." Several criticisms were offered. Miss... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 strani
...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 to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 strani
...This appears in his first book and in 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 universe? Why should not we have a poetry ami philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a... | |
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