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 Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Página 9por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 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...theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods stream around and through us, and invite us, by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature,... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1883 - 344 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...theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods stream around and through us, and invite us, by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 394 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...history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whoso floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us by the powers they supply, to action... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 páginas
...eriticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we through thcir eyes. AVhy should not we also enjoy an original relation to the...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of thcirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite... | |
| James Platt - 1883 - 538 páginas
...through their eyes. Why should we not also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should we not have a poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? " (EMEBSON.) The life of the future—socially, politically, and religiously—will depend upon the... | |
| Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1883 - 612 páginas
...Why should, not we enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and a philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not a history of theirs ? . . . The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flax in the fields.... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 588 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...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? " " Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields, — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic... | |
| 1884 - 354 páginas
...self-vouching and inimitable accent ? " The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out... | |
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