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... The American Scholar - Página 77por Theodore Parker - 1907 - 534 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1870 - 904 páginas
...biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...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 páginas
...the sepulchers of the fathers. . . . The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...insight, and not of tradition ; and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" This language betrays clearly enough the conviction... | |
| 1875 - 402 páginas
...the sepulchers of the fathers. . . . The foregoing generation beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 páginas
...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...of insight and 'not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs 1 Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of... | |
| Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 páginas
...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 páginas
...biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...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... | |
| 1912 - 720 páginas
...America, expressed itself in Emerson's "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ?" The Transcendentalisms are a high type of Rigorist,... | |
| 1880 - 492 páginas
...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 páginas
...biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face; we through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...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 páginas
...biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...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 stream... | |
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