| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Hannah Flagg Gould - Children's poetry - 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 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... | |
| American periodicals - 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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