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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 Christian world magazine (and family visitor). - Page 489
1882
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...work consists of eight short chapters, and an introduction altogether as brief. It begins manfully. Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres...the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why...
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The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volumes 24-25

1840 - 544 pages
...himself, in the introduction toan exquisite volume, entitled " Nature," 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...
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The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]., Volume 24

John George Cochrane - 1840 - 480 pages
...himself in the introduction to an exquisite volume entitled " Nature," 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...
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The Golden Vase: A Gift for the Young

Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...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...the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation. NATURE. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres...the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...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...the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why...
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Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...CHAPTER VI. . IDEALISM . 45 CHAPTER VII. SPIRIT . . 69 CHAPTER VIII. . PROSPECTS . 64 INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres...the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...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...the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

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 eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

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 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...
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