 Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade...  Littell's Living Age - Page 1021864Full view - About this book
 | John George Cochrane - 1840 - 480 pages
...life stream around and through us, and invite us by the powers they supply to action, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the...generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe 1 The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool anfl flax in the fields. There are new lands, new... | |
 | 1840 - 544 pages
...life stream around and through us, and invite us by the powers they supply to action, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its laded wardrobe ? The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - Children's poetry - 1927 - 328 pages
...through us, and invite us by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the...Let us demand our own works and laws and worship. Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...through us, and invite us, by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the...Let us demand our own works and laws and worship. Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...through us, and invite us by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the...Let us demand our own works and laws and worship. the great apparition that shines so peacefully around us. Let us inquire, to what end is nature ? All... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1849 - 408 pages
...through us, and invite us by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the...Let us demand our own works and laws and worship. 1 Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...through us, and invite us by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the...Let us demand our own works and laws and worship. Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 448 pages
...through us, and invite us by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the...Let us demand our own works and laws and worship." — Nature, pp. 5 — 6. Again he speaks in a higher mood of the same theme : " That is always best... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosophy of nature - 1856 - 402 pages
...through us, and invite us by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the...Let us demand our own works and laws and worship. Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the... | |
 | Theodore Parker - American literature - 1864 - 626 pages
...through us, and invite us, by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the...Let us demand our own works and laws and worship." — Nature, pp. 5 — 6. Again he speaks in a higher mood of the same theme : " That is always best... | |
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