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" Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. "
Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Page 17
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 315 pages
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 78

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 1474 pages
...Drag Stone, or lent poat free tram — C. Of. A. OJl.r>Rri>GE'S, 22 Wellington Street, Btrui Pomp. 4 Give me Health and a day, and I will make the Pomp of Emperors Ridiculous.' — EMEBSOS. Experience! from 'We Gather the Honey of Wisdom Thorns, not from Flowers.'— LYTTON....
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Letters of Theo. Brown

Theo Brown, Sarah Theo Brown - 1898 - 150 pages
...seems inevitable. 1874. This is a day when I feel like subscribing to this sentence of Emerson's : ' ' Give me health and a day and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." But I cannot tell you much about this brimming hour of the year, for I have been too busy to go out,...
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A Lost American: A Tale of Cuba

Archibald Clavering Gunter - 1898 - 274 pages
...white, rose, or . Snld by Sturcs itton Garden, gg** \" il Soutledffo'a Railway Library Advertiser. ' Give me Health and a Day, and I will make the Pomp of Emperors Ridiculous.' — EMERSON. t 4 We gather the Honey of Wisdom from Thorns, not from Flowers.' — LVITON. " As an...
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The Old Mare's Foal

Nat Gould - 1899 - 296 pages
...Pastry. When ordering Baking Powder BOKWICKS ! Fifteenth} Routledge's Railway Library Advertiser. Pomp. ' Give me Health and a Day, and I will make the Pomp of Emperors Ridiculous.' — EMERSON. Experience ! ' We gather the Honey of Wisdom from Thorns, not from Flowers.' — LYTTON....
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The Book Buyer, Volume 18

1899 - 556 pages
...to be found in Emerson'3 essay on "Beauty," in "Nature, and Other Addresses." This is the passage: " How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements. Give health and a day, and I will make the pom]) of emperors ridiculous." E. c. 373.— The book containing...
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A Short History of American Literature

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 392 pages
...does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted." The highest greatness is internal and simple; "give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." Upon social problems Emerson turned the searchlight of the same spiritual philosophy. In the Church...
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Theodore Parker: Preacher and Reformer

John White Chadwick - 1900 - 464 pages
...him as to the man in whose garden it grows. In this sermon he quotes the great phrase of Emerson, " Give me health and a day and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous," but he does not name Emerson, perhaps because he wished the phrase to stand on its own feet, unbiased...
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American Literature

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1901 - 390 pages
...its rapid transformations ; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a...the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realmsof faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall...
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American Literature

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1901 - 390 pages
...its rapid transformations ; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a...pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; thetunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realmsof faerie; broad noon shall be my England...
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Mind: Science, Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, Metaphysics ..., Volume 8

1901 - 540 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...
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