 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...  Emerson at Home and Abroad - Page 127by Moncure Daniel Conway - 1883 - 309 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Willard Thorp - 1961 - 1030 pages
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 | Harry Woolf - 1964 - 128 pages
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 | Bernard M. G. Reardon - 1966 - 420 pages
...originality, in thought and experience, cultivated. 'The foregoing generations," he wrote in Nature, 'beheld God and Nature face to face; we, through their...also enjoy an original relation to the Universe?' And again, 'In the soul let redemption be sought. Refuse the good models, even those which are sacred... | |
 | Kenneth Burke - 1966 - 534 pages
...the city of God which had been shown! (This passage presumably refers to a spot in the Introduction: "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face: we, through their eyes." And at that point, of course, one might turn aside to mention the favored role of eye-imagery in Emerson's... | |
 | Myron Simon - 1966 - 248 pages
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 | Allen Guttmann - 1967 - 232 pages
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