 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.  Complete Works - Page 50by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900Full view - About this book
 | Melita Schaum - 1993 - 272 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | 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,...playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his comer on such people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift,... | |
 | 1994 - 989 pages
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 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 1996 - 278 pages
...voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful or bold then, he 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Joanne Dobson - 1998 - 300 pages
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 | Thomas L. Dumm - 1999 - 232 pages
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