 I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots, and the thousandfold relief societies; — though I confess...  Complete Works - Page 54by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 636 pages
...miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots,...and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception... | |
 | 1909 - 540 pages
...miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots,...and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 pages
...miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots, and the thousandfold Relief Societies;—though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand ; alms to sots, and the thousandfold 5 Relief Societies ; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...miscellaneous is popular charities ; the education at college of fools ; the building of meetinghouses to the vain end to which many now stand ; alms to...wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood 20 to withhold. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is... | |
 | Margaret Collier Graham - 1911 - 298 pages
...compromise with our lower instead of our better selves. That is the charity of which Emerson wrote, "Though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and...which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold." Another class of beggars are those that beg for influence they could never acquire or for work they... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many 35 now stand; alms to sots, and the thousandfold Relief...and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception... | |
 | Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 568 pages
...miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots,...and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception... | |
 | Sir Dinshaw Edulji Wacha - 1915 - 250 pages
...131 meeting houses to the vain end of which many now stand ; alms to sots ; and all the thousand fold relief societies ; though I confess with shame I sometimes...which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold." And so it was with Mr. Tata : • this manhood was his. (Loud applause.) I have spoken of Mr. Tata's... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...miscellaneous popular 25 charities ; the education at college of fools ; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots, and the thousandfold Eelief Societies; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a... | |
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