 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 σελίδες
...work consists of eight short chapters, and an introduction altogether as brief. It begins manfully. Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres...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... | |
 | 1840 - 544 σελίδες
...published in Boston in 1836. " Our age is 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... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1840 - 480 σελίδες
...published in Boston in 1836. " Our age is 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 - 1927 - 328 σελίδες
...languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 σελίδες
...they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation. NATURE. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 σελίδες
...manner, nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design. Let us interrogate B OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 σελίδες
...languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 σελίδες
...CHAPTER VI. . IDEALISM . 45 CHAPTER VII. SPIRIT . . 69 CHAPTER VIII. . PROSPECTS . 64 INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 σελίδες
...sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generation^ beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their...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... | |
 | 1849 - 448 σελίδες
...fit man they are accepted, if not, thrown aside. This appears in his first book and in his last : " The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...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... | |
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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... 
