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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series - Page 48
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876
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The Essay on Self-reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 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,...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...
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Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...how to make us seniors very unnecessary. The nonchalance ' of boys who are sure of a dinner, and 10 would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught...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...
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Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 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...
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Studies in Several Literatures

Harry Thurston Peck - 1909 - 318 pages
...guides, redeemers and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos and the Dark. The nonchalance of boys, who are sure of a dinner...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. We are wiser than we know. If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see...
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Essays and English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 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,...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...
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How to Study and Teaching how to Study

Frank Morton McMurry - 1909 - 340 pages
...and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. . . . The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner and...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. " l But are such unconquered, unconciliatory minds desirable where social cooperation is a necessity,...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 5

1909 - 540 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,...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...
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Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...Bashful or bold then, he will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary. 25 5. The nonchalance0 of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain...attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlor what the pit0 is in the playhouse ; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such 30 people...
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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation,

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...contemporaries. Bashful or bold, then, he will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary. 20 The nonchalance5 of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain...is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse ;6 independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass 25 by,...
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Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1838-1841

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 614 pages
...example, or AP, or any other, i Mrs. Ripley was an eager reader of every new work on science. looks out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by ; tries, and sentences them on their merits, as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome.1...
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