 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 Methodist Quarterly Review - Página 3631874Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 páginas
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature 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... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1840 - 480 páginas
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It unites biographies, histories and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we through our eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should not we have... | |
 | 1840 - 544 páginas
...retrospective, it builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It unites biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we through our eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - 1849 - 348 páginas
...Scanderberg, and Gustavus P Suppose they were virtuous, did they wear out virtue P Why should we not have a poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition, and a religion of revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ?' In this manner Mr. Emerson discourses to our... | |
 | 1849 - 588 páginas
...Scanderberg. and Gnstavns? fcnppose they were virtuous, did they wear out virtne ? Why should we not have a poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition. and a religion oi revelation to «*, and not the history of tlmirs t" In this manner Mr Rmerson diseourses to our... | |
 | 1849 - 448 páginas
...fit man they are accepted, if not, thrown aside. This appears in his first book and in his last : " The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...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... | |
 | Day Kellogg Lee - 1854 - 378 páginas
...fine. Julia was so pleased, she took the volume and repeated this sentence as true and beautiful: " The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...we also enjoy an original relation to the universe ?" Then Julia read the first chapter, on " Nature." Several criticisms were offered. Miss Mumby liked... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 410 páginas
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theira ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 páginas
...fit man they are accepted, if not, thrown aside. This appears in his first book and in his last : " The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry ami philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by a revelation to us, and not the history... | |
 | 1864 - 744 páginas
...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 eyee. Why should not we, also, enjoy our original relation to the universe ? Why should not we have... | |
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