 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 9de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | 1864 - 744 páginas
...generations beheld God and nature face to face; we through their eyes. Why should not we, also, enjoy our original relation to the universe ? Why should not...theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods ol life stream around and through us, and invite us, by the powers they supply, to action proportioned... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 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...relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry ami philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by a revelation to us, and not the history... | |
 | 1869 - 580 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...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? This is criticism. But there is a difference between it and ordinary criticism. It is general and... | |
 | 1870 - 904 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...original relation to the universe ? Why should not \ve have a poetry and a philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to... | |
 | 1874 - 712 páginas
...the sepulchers of the fathers. . . . The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...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
...the sepulchers of the fathers. . . . The foregoing generation beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...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
...America, expressed itself in Emerson's "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 ?" The Transcendentalisms are a high type of Rigorist, active in our modern thought. But the Cynicism... | |
 | 1880 - 492 páginas
...author complaining that our age is too retrospective, and writes biographies alone. " Why should not we enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should...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,... | |
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