 | David Thomas - 1877 - 492 strani
...in what we presently do with it and ultimately make of it ! A beautiful thing is healthful life. " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of kings and emperors ridiculous! " exclaims a great living author, who knows to rapturous realization,... | |
 | 1880 - 672 strani
...dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria ; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos and unimaginable realms of faerie ; broad... | |
 | 1907 - 700 strani
...future, the " Uebermensch," then an education must mean also the sedulous cultivation of health. " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." But more important, perhaps, than information, accuracy, and health is the cultivation of that love... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 strani
...dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria ; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie ; broad... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1880 - 370 strani
...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.... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1880 - 362 strani
...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.... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 strani
...dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria ; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos and unimaginable realms of faerie ; broad... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 528 strani
...whispers of the glorious gods And leaves us in the mire." EMERSON AND CARLYLE. 287 CHAPTER IX. EMERSON'S STYLE, POETRY, AND CRITICISM — THOREAU. EMERSON...half-Grecized American, studying Swedenborg and the Phsedo in his garden, far enough from the din of cities to enable him, " in seasons of calm weather,"... | |
 | Physician and sanitarian, Martin Luther Holbrook - 1882 - 206 strani
...neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities." In another place this same gifted author says, " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." Many other far-seeing authors, both ancient and modern, have urged with great emphasis and power the... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 strani
...dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria ; the sunset and moon-rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie ; broad... | |
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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. 
