 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...  Littell's Living Age - Página 1001848Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1874 - 712 páginas
...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...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" This language betrays clearly enough the conviction of Mr. Emerson as to the chief evils under which... | |
 | 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...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs 1 Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us... | |
 | 1875 - 402 páginas
...generation 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 philosphy of insight, and not of tradition ; and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 1912 - 720 páginas
...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...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ?" The Transcendentalisms are a high type of Rigorist, active in our modern thought. But the Cynicism of every... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 páginas
...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...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 us... | |
 | 1880 - 492 páginas
...complaining that our age is too retrospective, and writes biographies alone. " Why should not we enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should not...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, "There... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 páginas
...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...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
...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...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods stream around and through us, and invite us, by the... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 páginas
...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...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... | |
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