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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. "
Essays - Page 49
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 371 pages
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The Making and Unmaking of an Evangelical Mind: The Case of Edward Carnell

Rudolph Nelson - 2002 - 272 pages
...variation on that theme, Emerson, in his essay "Self- Reliance," extolled the child's nonconformity: The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner,...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...
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Emerson's Pragmatic Vision: The Dance of the Eye

David Jacobson - 2010 - 221 pages
...engaging of Emerson's descriptions of self-reliance is found a short way into the essay, where he writes, "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner,...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature" (CW 2:29). Emerson raises through this description the image of an attitude of indifference that accords...
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The Depleted Self: Sin in a Narcissistic Age

Donald Capps - 1993 - 198 pages
...ourselves. The sense of independence and freedom that results from such a conviction is analogous to "the nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a Lord to do or 129 say aught to conciliate one." Warming to this analogy, Emerson continues: A boy is in the parlour...
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No Less a Man: Masculist Art in a Feminist Age

Douglas Robinson - 1994 - 340 pages
...neither Emerson nor Parker can quite put his finger on the problem. Here, for instance, is Emerson: The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner,...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...
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A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises

Stanley Cavell - 1996 - 220 pages
...perhaps alone ours and can alone give our opinions substance. He recommends a figure to our attention: The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain ... to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. . . . Independent,...
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The Child's Song: The Religious Abuse of Children

Donald Capps - 1995 - 212 pages
...unsparing in what we say about what we see. As Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his essay "Self-Reliance," notes: The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner,...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...
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Reimagining Thoreau

Robert Milder - 1995 - 266 pages
...History, p. 67. 81. The phrase is from "Self-Reliance": "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a good dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say ought to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlour what the...
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Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman

Stanley Cavell - 1996 - 278 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...will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary." This seems the report of a scene Emerson commonly witnesses, and given his time and place it probably...
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Emersonian Circles: Essays in Honor of Joel Myerson

Joel Myerson - 1997 - 310 pages
...midst were many thoughts on male nonconformity. "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner &- would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one," he wrote, "is the healthy attitude of human nature." This sentence would find its way eventually into...
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The Good Life

Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 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...
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