 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...a mind that is "whole" have more than one aim? What is the highest aim a boy can have ? by itself. Do not think the youth has no force because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark ! in the next room, who spoke so clear and emphatic ? Good Heaven ! it is he ! it is that very lump of bashfulness and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...done nothing but eat when you were by, that now rolls out these words like bell-strokes. It seems lie knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful...will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary. The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...charm, and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no force because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark ! in the next room, who spoke so clear and emphatic ? Good Heaven ! it is he ! it is that very lump of bashfulness and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...charm, and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot...will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary. The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...charm, and made it enviable and gracious, and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no force because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark ! in the next room, who spoke so clear and emphatic? Good Heaven! it is he ! it is that very lump of bashfulness and phlegm... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...charm, and made it enviable and gracious, and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no force because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark! in the next room, who spoke so clear and emphatic ? Good heaven ! it is he ! it is that very lump of bashfulness and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...charm, and made it enviable and gracious, and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no force because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark ! in the next room who spoke so clear and emphatic ? Good heaven ! it is he — it is that very lump of bashfulness and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...gracious, and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no iorce because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark ! in the next room who spoke so clear and emphatic ? Good heaven ! it is he — it is that very lump of bashfulness and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...charm, and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot...will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary. The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...charm, and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot...will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary. The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say... | |
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... nobody ; all conform to it ; so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm, and made it enviable and gracious and its... 
