 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 290 strani
...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 strani
...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... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1895 - 368 strani
...enemies from venison and brawn, and by 'r 1 ' 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.' EMERSON. — G. Lady, when need calls, beat them down under my feet ? The State levies tax ; and the... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 290 strani
...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... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1895 - 384 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.... | |
 | 1901 - 500 strani
...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... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1897 - 604 strani
...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 strani
...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... | |
 | Mary Ashton Livermore - 1897 - 750 strani
...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 strani
...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... | |
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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. 
