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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 9
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870
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The Altruistic Review, Volume 3

1894 - 444 pages
...writes biographies, history and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion of revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods...
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My Study Fire, Volume 2

Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1894 - 200 pages
...biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season...
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Studies in Education: Science, Art, History

Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1896 - 396 pages
...biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of iiisight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed...
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Nineteenth Century Questions

James Freeman Clarke - 1897 - 388 pages
...writes biographies, histories, criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? . . . The sun shines to-day also. . . . Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable."...
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Contemporaries

Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1899 - 404 pages
...have " beheld God and nature face to face ; we only through their eyes. Why should not we," he says, "also enjoy an original relation to the universe ?...poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition ? " Thus the book begins, and on the very last page it ends, " Build, therefore, your own world ! "...
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History of American Verse (1610-1897)

James Lawrence Onderdonk - 1901 - 408 pages
...biographies, history, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion of revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical ..., Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 524 pages
...biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed fora season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us, by the powers...
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Studies in Logical Theory

John Dewey - 1903 - 414 pages
...maintained. Emerson has somewhere said : "The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face; we through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...by revelation to us and not the history of theirs?" The difficulty lies precisely in our faith in immediate insight and revelation, which are themselves...
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The Influence of Emerson

Edwin Doak Mead - 1903 - 324 pages
...veritable and self-vouching accent ? " The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...revelation to us, and not the history of ' theirs ? Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and ..., Volume 9

John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 532 pages
...seen it before. THE TEACHINGS OF NATURE. cisms. The foregoing generations beheld God face to face. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation...tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not of tradition, and a revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in Nature,...
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