"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest courage. When they are
real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know. For
now, after so many ages of experience, what do we know of nature, or of ourselves?
Not one step has man taken toward the solution of the problem of his destiny. In one
condemnation of folly stand the whole universe of men. But the sweet sincerity of
joy and peace, which I draw from this alliance with my brother's soul, is the nut itself
whereof all nature and all thought is but the husk and shell. Happy is the house that
shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a
single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law!"
(Emerson, 1841).
The quotation above is from an essay entitled "Friendship" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Which of the following does Emerson employ to indicate that he is expressing deeply
felt personal feelings?
OA) He employs an urgent tone.
OB) He repeats the word "happy."
OC) He makes a strong argument
OD) He uses the first person.