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
| William Mackintire Salter - 1917 - 560 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."7 In one of Stendhal's novels a Jew has a bad conscience when he falls in love and takes... | |
| William Mackintire Salter - 1917 - 566 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."7 In one of Stendhal's novels a Jew has a bad conscience when he falls in love and... | |
| David Graham - 1919 - 184 pages
...ill-judged charity is a curse. " The education at colleges of fools ; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand ; alms to sots and the 1 Lectures, vol. i. pp. 42, 63. thousand-fold relief societies ; — although I confess with shame... | |
| Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 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,...Relief Societies; — though I confess with shame I sometime succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by and by I shall have the manhood... | |
| Ulysses Grant King - 1921 - 302 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 thousand-fold Relief Societies; — tho I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 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...and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and^bv I shall have the manhood to withhold. ^l/4/t Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...your miscellaneous popular charities; t education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houa to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots, an the thousand-fold Relief Societies; — • though I confess wi shame I sometimes succumb and give... | |
| George Carpenter Clancy - 1928 - 288 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...and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by-andby I shall have the manhood to withhold. . . . Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift... | |
| Robert H. Bremner - 1988 - 313 pages
...miscellaneous popular charities; the education at colleges of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots, and the thousandfold Relief Societies." Thoreau scorned "a charity which dispenses the crumbs that fall from its overload tables, which are... | |
| Stanley Cavell - 1990 - 207 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;...which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Updike at once replies, "A doctrine of righteous selfishness is here propounded." Bloom takes a little... | |
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