 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...  Littell's Living Age - Σελίδα 1001848Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
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 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 σελίδες
...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 not of...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of them ? Yes — even to this demand the perusal of Coleridge and Wordsworth has excited the American... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1840 - 480 σελίδες
...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...tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not a history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, where floods of life stream around and through... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 σελίδες
...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...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us... | |
 | 1848 - 614 σελίδες
...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 not...us,, and not the history of theirs ? The sun shines to- day also? Let us demand our own works, and laws, and worship." In the Essay on Self-reliance —... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 σελίδες
...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...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 σελίδες
...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...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in Nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 σελίδες
...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...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 σελίδες
...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...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - 1849 - 348 σελίδες
...Scanderberg, and Gustavus P Suppose they were virtuous, did they wear out virtue P Why should we not have a poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition, and a religion of revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ?' In this manner Mr. Emerson discourses to our... | |
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