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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... "
The Teachers of Emerson - Page 91
by John Smith Harrison - 1910 - 323 pages
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The Monthly magazine

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...
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The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volumes 24-25

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...
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The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]., Volume 24

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...
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The Golden Vase: A Gift for the Young

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...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...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 13

1848 - 614 pages
...of the 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...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...
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Essays, orations and lectures

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...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...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

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...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,...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 13

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...of the 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...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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 16

1848 - 636 pages
...past." He will not see through the eyes of others. "Why should not we also," he demands, " enjoy aп 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...
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Nature

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...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...
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