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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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A Book of American Literature

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 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 most disagreeable sensation. 10 For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure. And therefore a man must know how to...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15): Nature; Addresses, and ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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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Selves at Risk: Patterns of Quest in Contemporary American Letters

Ihab Hassan - 1990 - 256 pages
...Then, Emerson says, the "muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved by a low usurping wilfullness, grow tight about the outline of the face, with the most disagreeable sensation."54 This is not behaviorism, a mechanism of the heart, but a pragmatic sense of how things...
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From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest

Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 pages
...does not interest us. Thus muscles, not spontaneously moved, but moved by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face with the most disagreeable sensation" (Essays, 264). Emerson's imagining of the public in "Self-Reliance" — his simultaneous invitation...
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The Good Life

Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 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...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 Americas of Asian American Literature: Gendered Fictions of Nation and ...

Rachel C. Lee - 1999 - 208 pages
...man from living as a nonconformist is his lack of self-trust (ie, his doubt over his own divinity): "For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure. And therefore a man . . . needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat [the world's displeasure] godlike as a trifle...
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The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 284 pages
...muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the oudine of the face, with the most disagreeable sensation....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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American Cultures: Readings in Social and Cultural History

Al Smith - 2007 - 464 pages
...does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved, but moved by a low usurping willfulness, 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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American Cultures: Readings in Social and Cultural History

Al Smith - 2007 - 464 pages
...does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved, but moved by a low usurping willfulness, 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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Popular Delusions: How Social Conformity Molds Society and Politics

...realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. . . . For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure....him in the public street or in the friend's parlor. John Stuart Mill brought Democracy in America to the attention of readers in England through favorable...
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