 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.  Essays - Page 49by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 371 pagesFull view - About this book
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...speak to you and me. Hark ! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful...conciliate 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... | |
 | Albert Edward Hamilton - 1925 - 390 pages
...attainment not in the world of money or of power, but in the realm of soul. CHAPTER VII A LAY CONFESSIONAL The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner,...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. — EMERSON. I DO not quote Emerson as a mere chapter-head embellishment, but because he knew boys,... | |
 | Ben Barr Lindsey, Wainwright Evans - 1925 - 374 pages
...done nothing but eat when you were by, that now rolls out those words like bell-strokes. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful...unnecessary. "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...speak to you and me. Hark! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful...conciliate 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...speak to you and me. Hark ! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful...conciliate 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...seems he knows how to speak to his contemporari Bashful or bold then, he will know how to make us senic very unnecessary. The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, ai would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...speak to you and me. Hark! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful...conciliate 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...speak to you and me. Hark! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful...conciliate one, 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... | |
 | James Bennett - 1988 - 380 pages
...done nothing but eat when you were by, that now rolls out those words like bell-strokes. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful...will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary." 16. Quoted in Larsen, Good Fight, p. 48. 17. Lindsey and Evans, Revolt of Modern Youth, pp. 72-73.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...speak to you and me. Hark! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful...conciliate one, 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... | |
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