 | B. L. Packer - 1982 - 264 pages
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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...to his contemporaries. Bashful or bold, then, he will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary. The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner,...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... | |
 | Rudolph Nelson - 2002 - 272 pages
...variation on that theme, Emerson, in his essay "Self- Reliance," extolled the child's nonconformity: The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner,...irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people on their merits, in the swift summary way of boys, as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome.... | |
 | Milton Hindus - 1988 - 206 pages
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 | 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... | |
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A boy is in the parlour what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift summary way of boys, as good, bad, interesting,... 
