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
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 páginas
...find in the Introduction to "Nature." " 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 ? " " Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields,... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 páginas
...find in the Introduction to "Nature." "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion hy revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? " " Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields,... | |
| 1894 - 444 páginas
...writes biographies, history and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion of revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods... | |
| Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1894 - 200 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...we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season... | |
| Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1896 - 396 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...Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of iiisight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed... | |
| John Trevor - 1897 - 332 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... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - 1897 - 388 páginas
...writes biographies, histories, criticisms. 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 sun shines to-day also. . . . Undoubtedly... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 480 páginas
...declaration of independence; and it asked, in substance, the question asked in Emerson's " Nature " : " Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" Pope had said, in his " Essay on Criticism," * " follow Nature," and in order to follow Nature, learn... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 386 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... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1899 - 404 páginas
...have " beheld God and nature face to face ; we only through their eyes. Why should not we," he says, "also enjoy an original relation to the universe ?...poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition ? " Thus the book begins, and on the very last page it ends, " Build, therefore, your own world ! "... | |
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