 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 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... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 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... | |
 | 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 I DO not quote Emerson as a mere chapter-head embellishment, but because he knew boys,...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
...rolls out those 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 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 on... | |
 | James Bennett - 1988 - 380 pages
...rolls out those 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 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
...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 on... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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