 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1840 - 544 páginas
...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... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1840 - 480 páginas
...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... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 páginas
...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 páginas
...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 páginas
...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 páginas
...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 páginas
...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1849 - 448 páginas
...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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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... 
