 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 - Page 9de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1864 - 744 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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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