 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 290 pages
...theological dogma, toward everything that would hamper and limit him. It shines in his famous boast: — " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." There is a glint of it in this passage, which might have been written to comfort John Brown, or reassure... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 288 pages
...theological dogma, toward everything that would hamper and limit him. It shines in his famous boast : — "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." There is a glint of it in this passage, which might have been written to comfort John Brown, or reassure... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1895 - 398 pages
...my crust there, and drinking my glass of wine, I have often thought of the words of Emerson, — ' Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of Emperors ridiculous.' On one occasion especially, when the guns were thundering in France in honour of Louis Napoleon, I... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1895 - 384 pages
...daily neglecting the elements of purest and loftiest pleasure. " Give me," says an American writer, " health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." But to enable us thus to enjoy the gifts of nature we all need more open eyes, more grateful hearts.... | |
 | 1901 - 500 pages
...experience rather than the cut-anddried teaching of the schools. Its key-note is Emerson's familiar saying: ''Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." Dr. Janes believes that life is worth living to the fulness of its widest possibilities, and the best... | |
 | Mary Ashton Livermore - 1897 - 750 pages
...spiritual uplift to me. This was before Emerson had written his "Essay on Nature," in which he declares, " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous ! " But I was in sympathy with its unwritten sentiment every morning, as I walked " the sounding aisles... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1897 - 604 pages
...with gratitude to God. At such an hour we can enter into the exalted mood of Emerson, when he said, "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." But I must come at once to my point. I stood on the day after that storm before the Great Stone Face... | |
 | Mary Ashton Livermore - 1897 - 746 pages
...spiritual uplift to me. This was before Emerson had written his "Essay on Nature," in which he declares, " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous!" But I was in sympathy with its unwritten sentiment every morning, as I walked " the sounding aisles... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1897 - 844 pages
...and good until our eyes and minds are weary and then go forth to commune with nature. Kmerson s.'iys, "Give me health and a day and I will make the pomp of emper" on ridiculous." The treshuess and beauty of the morning, the splendor of the noon and the glory... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1898 - 340 pages
...darkness the stars pour their almost spiritual rays." And again: — How does nature deify us with a few cheap elements ! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." It ought to be a part of our most ordinary belief that "Every bird that sings, And every flower that... | |
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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. 
