 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 - Página 901864Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1848 - 614 páginas
...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...by revelation to 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 páginas
...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...by revelation to 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... | |
 | 1849 - 588 páginas
...Scanderberg. and Gnstavns? fcnppose they were virtuous, did they wear out virtne ? Why should we not have a poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition. and a religion oi revelation to «*, and not the history of tlmirs t" In this manner Mr Rmerson diseourses to our... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - 1849 - 348 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1849 - 448 páginas
...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...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by a revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 410 páginas
...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...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theira ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 páginas
...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 ami philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by a revelation to us, and not the history... | |
 | 1882 - 972 páginas
...through their eyes. Why should we not also enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should we not have a poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition, and of religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? " One sees in these words the affirmation... | |
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