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" For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure. And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face. The by-standers look askance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlor. "
Literary Interpretations, Or, A Guide to the Teaching and Reading of ... - Page 170
1896 - 204 pages
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...disagreeable sensation, a sensation of rebuke and warning which no brave young man will suffer twice. For non-conformity the world whips you with its displeasure....bystanders look askance on him in the public street or in his friend's parlour. If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own, he...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved, but moved by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face with the...askance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlour. If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own, he might well go...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved, but moved by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face with the...askance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlour. If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own, he might well go...
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Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...spontaneously moved, but moved by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, and make the most disagreeable sensation. For nonconformity...askance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlour. If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own, he might well go...
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The Indiana School Journal, Volume 2

1857 - 404 pages
...INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST, 1857. NO. 8. PUBLIC OPINION. A living philosopher of world-wide fame says, " For non-conformity the world whips you with its displeasure,...the public street or in the friend's parlor. If this aversion had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own, he might well go home with a sad countenance...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved, but moved by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face with the...must know how to estimate a sour face. The bystanders lookjiskance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlor. If this avcrsation had its origin...
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Outlook and Independent, Volume 150

1928 - 776 pages
...at home. "... A man must know," Emerson said, and the sting lost nothing for want of a calm example, "how to estimate a sour face. The bystanders look...him in the public street or in the friend's parlor . . . but the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneouslymoved but moved by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, with the...the public street or in the friend's parlor. If this aversion had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own he might well go home with a sad countenance...
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Essays: First series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved, but moved by a low usurping wilfuluess, grow tight about the outline of the face with the...bystanders look askance on him in the public street or ni the friend's parlor. If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own,...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved, but moved by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face with the...bystanders look askance on him in the public street or m the friend's parlor. If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own, he...
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