...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,...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...perhaps alone ours and can alone give our opinions substance. He recommends a figure to our attention: The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain ... to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. . . . Independent,...

...unsparing in what we say about what we see. As Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his essay "Self-Reliance," notes: 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...

...History, p. 67. 81. The phrase is from "Self-Reliance": "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a good dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say ought to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlour what the...

...speak to you and me. Hark! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful...will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary." This seems the report of a scene Emerson commonly witnesses, and given his time and place it probably...

...midst were many thoughts on male nonconformity. "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner &- would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one," he wrote, "is the healthy attitude of human nature." This sentence would find its way eventually into...

...speak to you and me. Hark! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful...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...