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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. "
Complete Works - Page 50
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900
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American Ethics: A Source Book from Edwards to Dewey

Guy W. Stroh, Howard G. Callaway - 2000 - 524 pages
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The American Intellectual Tradition: 1630-1865

David A. Hollinger, Charles Capper - 2001 - 580 pages
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American Society Today

Edward Ashbee - 2002 - 172 pages
...wanted an all-pervading spirit of suspicious resentment: 'The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a good dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do...conciliate one. is the healthy attitude of human nature' (quoted in Allen 1 9 70: 141). The ideas associated with expressive individualism are also evident...
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Redemptive Change: Atonement and the Christian Cure of the Soul

R. R. Reno - 2002 - 312 pages
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Going Home Through Seven Paths to Nowhere: Reading Short Stories by ...

Katalin G. Kállay - 2003 - 178 pages
...word's possible meanings, hence it can be related to the "ordinary" or "innocent" attitude to the world: "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner,...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature." In: Nina Baym (ed.): The Norton Anthology, Vol. I., p. 1 128. There is an interesting parallel between...
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Stanley Cavell

Richard Eldridge - 2003 - 262 pages
...thinking, he was ripe for Emerson's work, however long it would take him to find a way of writing about it: The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner,...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...
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The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence

Susan M. Ryan (Ph. D.) - 2003 - 256 pages
...process his gendering of independence. "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner," he writes, "and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature." 8 These irresponsible and independent boys, however, are embedded within relationships of dependence,...
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Trying It Out in America: Literary and Other Performances

Richard Poirier - 2003 - 334 pages
...anticipate them in a parenthetical remark which Leverenz omits from his quotations: the boys "should disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one." A more adequate reader of the canonical writers Leverenz discusses must be alert to the play of voices...
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Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 564 pages
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Essays and English Traits: Harvard Classics 1909

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 500 pages
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