When I was thirteen years old [he writes in his journal in 1839], my uncle Samuel Ripley one day asked me, ' How is it, Ralph, that all the boys dislike you and quarrel with you, whilst the grown people are fond of you? A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 6by James Elliot Cabot - 1887 - 809 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - United States - 1887 - 764 pages
...the rude boys were like." Mr. Emerson wrote in his journal in 1839: "When I was thirteen years old my uncle, Samuel Ripley, one day asked me, ' How is...suspect and dislike me, and the young people love me " Mr. Cabot says : " One explanation lay, perhaps, in a certain lofty carriage of the head — the... | |
| Literature - 1888 - 1004 pages
...that city Ralph Waldo was born in 1803. S20 As a child Emerson held aloof from his contemporaries. When I was thirteen years old [he writes in his journal...suspect and dislike me, and the young people love me. " I don't think he ever engaged," so writes an old schoolfellow, "in boys' plays ; not because of any... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1888 - 572 pages
...in that city Ralph Waldo was born in 1803. As a child Emerson held aloof from his contemporaries. ' When I was thirteen years old ' [he writes in his...Ralph, that all the boys dislike you and quarrel with yon, whilst the grown people are fond of you ? " Now I am thirty-six, and the f»ct is reversed ; the... | |
| American literature - 1901 - 694 pages
...a peculiar charm in Emerson as a child. In mature life, he writes in his journal that the position is reversed : "The old people suspect and dislike me, and the young people love me." If anyone suspected or disliked this pure and upright soul, it must have been owing to some misunderstanding... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - Authors, American - 1911 - 614 pages
...amusing these butterflies and beetles, and austerely tells them so. When I was thirteen years old, my Uncle Samuel Ripley one day asked me, " How is...you, whilst the grown people are fond of you?" Now am I thirty-six and the fact is rei839] CANT. FACT AND IDEAL 271 versed, — the old people suspect... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - Authors, American - 1911 - 616 pages
...all the boys dislike you and quarrel with you, whilst the grown people are fond of you ? " Now am I thirty-six and the fact is reversed, — the old people suspect and dislike me,' and the young love me. Never exhort, only confess. All exhortation, 0 thou hoarse preacher ! respects others and... | |
| Literature - 1912 - 372 pages
...autobiography and self-criticism are of interest. In 1839 Emerson wrote : " When I was thirteen years old, my Uncle Samuel Ripley one day asked me ' How is it,...the old people suspect and dislike me, and the young love me." Of the twentieth reunion of his college class, he says : " I drank a great deal of wine (for... | |
| Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins, Edward Hiram Reede - National characteristics, American - 1924 - 356 pages
...schoolmates by this mixture of timidity and superiority. "When I was thirteen years old," he says, "my uncle Ripley one day asked me, 'How is it, Ralph, that all the boys dislike you and quarrel with you *?' " In any family of boys such as the Emersons, the natural rivalries of instinctive egotism are... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - Authors, American - 1926 - 386 pages
...insight into character. September 28 Also I hate Early Poems. September 29 When I was thirteen years old, my Uncle Samuel Ripley one day asked me, 'How is it,...you, whilst the grown people are fond of you?' Now am I thirty-six and the fact is reversed, — the old people suspect and dislike me, and the young... | |
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