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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. "
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900
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Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 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...nonchalance ' of boys who are sure of a dinner, and 10 would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of...
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Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 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...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...
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Essays and English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 636 pages
...rolls out these words like bell-strokes. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful or bold then, he will know how to make us seniors...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. How is a boy the master of society ; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 5

1909 - 540 pages
...rolls out these words like bell-strokes. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful or bold then, he will know how to make us seniors...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. How is a boy the master of society ; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such...
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Studies in Several Literatures

Harry Thurston Peck - 1909 - 318 pages
...guides, redeemers and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos and the Dark. The nonchalance of boys, who are sure of a dinner...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. We are wiser than we know. If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see...
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How to Study and Teaching how to Study

Frank Morton McMurry - 1909 - 340 pages
...and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. . . . The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner and...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. " l But are such unconquered, unconciliatory minds desirable where social cooperation is a necessity,...
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Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 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. 25 5. The nonchalance0 of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do...
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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation,

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 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. 20 The nonchalance5 of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or...
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An American Bible

Alice Hubbard - 1911 - 462 pages
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English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of ...

Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful or bold then, he will know how to make us seniors very 25 unnecessary. The nonchalance of boys who are sure...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. How is a boy the master of society ! — independent, irresponsible, 30 looking out from his corner...
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