 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
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 páginas
...the words of its introduction announced that its author had broken with the past. " Why should riot we also enjoy an original relation to the universe...by revelation to us and not the history of theirs?" It took eleven years to sell five hundred copies of this little book. But the year following its publication... | |
 | 1888 - 632 páginas
...generations," he writes, " beheld God face to face ; we, through their eyes; why should not we enjoy also an original relation to the universe? Why should not...by revelation to us and not the history of theirs ? " It is this doctrine of self-reliance, illustrated by fresh examples, enforced under new aspects,... | |
 | William Hague - 1888 - 386 páginas
...generations beheld God and Nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we enjoy also an original relation to the universe? Why should not...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? " GENERAL RE-UNION IN PROVIDENCE, RI During the following year (1837), soon after my removal from... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 572 páginas
...generations,' he writes, ' beheld God face to face ; we, through their eyes ; why should not we enjoy also an original relation to the universe ? Why should...by revelation to us and not the history of theirs ? ' It is this doctrine of selfreliance, illustrated by fresh examples, enforced under new aspects,... | |
 | 1888 - 1004 páginas
...foregoinggenerations," he writes, "beheld God face to face ; we, through their eyes ; why should not we enjoy also an original relation to the universe ? Why should...by revelation to us and not the history of theirs?" It is this doctrine of self-reliance, illustrated by fresh examples, enforced under new aspects, presented... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 288 páginas
...American thought, and the words of its introduction announced that its author had broken with the past. "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation...by revelation to us and not the history of theirs?" It took eleven years to sell five hundred copies of this little book. But the year following its publication... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 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 Main,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 608 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... | |
 | 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...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? " " Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields, — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic... | |
 | 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,... | |
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