 The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.  Essays - Página 49por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 371 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Milton Hindus - 1988 - 206 páginas
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 | David Jacobson - 2010 - 221 páginas
...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... | |
 | Melita Schaum - 1993 - 272 páginas
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 | Donald Capps - 1993 - 198 páginas
...ourselves. The sense of independence and freedom that results from such a conviction is analogous to "the nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a Lord to do or 129 say aught to conciliate one." Warming to this analogy, Emerson continues: A boy is in the parlour... | |
 | Douglas Robinson - 1994 - 340 páginas
...neither Emerson nor Parker can quite put his finger on the problem. Here, for instance, is Emerson: The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner,...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from... | |
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