OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation... Massachusetts Quarterly Review - Page 2151849Full view - About this book
| Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face...we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy our original relation to the universe ? Why should a man have a poetry and philosophy of insight and... | |
| John George Cochrane - 1840 - 480 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It unites biographies, histories and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we through our eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should not we have... | |
| 1840 - 544 pages
...retrospective, it builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It unites biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we through our eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have... | |
| Hannah Flagg Gould - Children's poetry - 1927 - 328 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...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... | |
| American literature - 1848 - 614 pages
...of the past." He will not see through the eyes of others, " Why should not we also," he demands, " enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should...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? Let us demand our own... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...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... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...of the past." He will not see through the eyes of others, " Why should not we also," he demands, " enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should...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? Let us demand our own... | |
| American periodicals - 1848 - 636 pages
...past." He will not see through the eyes of others. "Why should not we also," he demands, " enjoy aп 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 * The sun shines to-day also ! Let us demand our own... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...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... | |
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