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 - 1902 - 66 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 Belief Societies; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 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...dollar, which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold.1 Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 460 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...dollar, which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold.2 Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1859 - 460 pages
...315, note I. In " Self- Reliance " Mr. Emerson confesses, "with shame," to the same fault: "Though I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked...which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold." Page 315, note 2. Exactly opposite Mr. Emerson's house, and but fifty paces from his study, was the... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 404 pages
...education at college of fools, the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many of these now stand, alms to sots, and the thousand-fold relief societies, — though I confess with shame that I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, yet it is a wicked dollar, which by and by I shall have... | |
| Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 470 pages
...miscellaneous popular charities ; the education at college of fools ; the building of meetinghouses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots ; and the thousand- fold Relief Societies ; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 458 pages
...Page 3I5, note I. In " Self-Reliance " Mr. Emerson confesses, "with shame," to the same fault: "Though I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked...which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold." Page3I5, note 2. Exactly opposite Mr. Emerson's house, and but fifty paces from his study, was the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 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...succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by-andby I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception... | |
| John Murdoch Ebenezer Ross - 1905 - 350 pages
...perhaps when it should not have been, sometimes when he had feelings afterwards akin to Emerson's : " Though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to withhold ! " Certainly he had the manhood to withhold the dollar... | |
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