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" ... nobody ; all conform to it ; so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm, and made it enviable and gracious and its... "
Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman - Page 35
by Stanley Cavell - 1996 - 255 pages
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...weeks has done nothing but eat when you were by, that now rolls out these words like bell-strokes. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries....will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary. The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...charm, and made it enviable and gracious, and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no force because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark! in the next room, who spoke so clear and emphatic? Good Heaven! it is he! it is that very lump of bashfulness and phlegm...
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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 422 pages
...cnarm, and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark ! in the next room who spoke so clear and emphatic? It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Good Heaven...
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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 pages
...the youth has no force, because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark ! in the next room who spoke so clear and emphatic? It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Good Heaven! it is he! it is that very lump of bashfulness and phlegm which for weeks has done nothing...
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Select Essays and Addresses, Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1922 - 314 pages
...and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do 20 not think the youth has no force, because he cannot...contemporaries. Bashful or bold then, he will know bow to make us seniors very unnecessary. 26 5. The nonchalance0 of boys who are sure of a dinner, and...
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays for First-year Students Selected by the ...

University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 pages
...charm, and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no force because he cannot...will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary. The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught...
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric ...

University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...charm, and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no force because he cannot...will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary. The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught...
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The Revolt of Modern Youth

Ben Barr Lindsey, Wainwright Evans - 1925 - 374 pages
...not be true of a democracy. The gentlemen have their terms mixed. "Do not think," says Emerson, "that the youth has no force because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark ! in the next room, who spoke so clear and emphatic? Good heaven! It is he! It is that very lump of bashfulness and phlegm...
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Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an Introd

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...charm, and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot...will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary. The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say...
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American Literature

Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...charm, and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot...will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary. The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say...
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