 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...  Ernest Buckler: Rediscovery and Reassessment - Page 3by Marta Dvořák - 2001 - 279 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face...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... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1840 - 480 pages
...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... | |
 | 1840 - 544 pages
...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 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...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 revelation... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generation^ beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their...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... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pages
...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...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... | |
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