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" The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. "
The Real Boy and the New School - Page 138
by Albert Edward Hamilton - 1925 - 375 pages
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...is the healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlour what the pit is in the playhouse ; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner...and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on then- merits, in the swift, summary way of boys, as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome....
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 354 pages
...is the healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlour what the pit is in the playhouse ; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner...bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He cumber? himself never about consequences, about interests : ho gives an independent, genuine verdict....
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner...boys, as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublegome. He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent,...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...what the pit is in the playhouse ; ^mdejKttdent, irresponsible, looking oat from his corner on suen people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift, summary war of boys, as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He cumbers himself never about...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...is the healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse ; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner...interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. ' ; He cumbers_hiraself _ne_yer about consequences, about interests-^ he gives a verdict. You must court him...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner...good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. SELF-RELIANCE. 51 He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests ; he gives an independent,...
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Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed, Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...is the healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse ; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner...good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. lie cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests ; he gives an independent, genuine verdict....
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The Natural Speller and Word Book

Lillian Kupfer - 1890 - 184 pages
...<!al' en der A calender gives a smooth surface to paper. XII.—DICTATION EXERCISE.* How a boy is the master of society ! Independent, irresponsible, looking...corner on such people and facts as pass by, he tries them and sentences them on their merits, in the swift, summary way of boys, as good, bad, interesting,...
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The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...is the healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse;6 independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner...and sentences them on their merits, in the swift, 1 The confused or formless elementary state in which the universe is supposed to have existed before...
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Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ...

1896 - 374 pages
...is the healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse;6 independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner...and sentences them on their merits, in the swift, 1 The confused or formless elementary state in which the universe is supposed to have existed before...
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