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" 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... "
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900
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Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian ...

Stanley Cavell - 1990 - 207 pages
...because it supports what it is that keeps them down; which further suggests that when Emerson adds of the wicked dollar, "which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold," he does not exactly mean that he will further harden his heart but that by and by he will live in a...
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Unfaithful Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned Its Mission

Harry Specht, Mark E. Courtney - 1995 - 228 pages
...popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain and to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold...I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give a dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold.26 It appears...
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Giving: Charity and Philanthropy in History

Robert H. Bremner - 260 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."9 Slavery, the issue in reform in the mid-nineteenth-century United States, was a subject...
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Vanguards & Followers: Youth in the American Tradition

1995 - 286 pages
...your 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,...thousand-fold Relief Societies; though I confess with shame 1 sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by and by I shall have the manhood...
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From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest

Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 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. (Essays, 263) In "An Emerson Mood," Stanley Cavell has explored Emerson's transformation of religious...
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Renewing American Compassion

Marvin Olasky - 1997 - 224 pages
...Review quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous self-criticism: "I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, but it is a wicked dollar, which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold." Sociological analyses of the "floating population of all large modern cities" showed the homeless including...
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God in Concord: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Awakening to the Infinite

Richard G. Geldard - 1999 - 200 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;...the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by 1 shall have the manhood to withhold. Seen by some as Emerson's essential lack of liberal or Christian...
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The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
...dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong. . . . [T]hough I confess with shame I sometimes succumb...which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold. (CW 2: 30-31) Activism on behalf of suffering others "a thousand miles off" is proof of a false relation...
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Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-made Man

Garry Wills - 2002 - 644 pages
...miscellaneous popular charities; the education at colleges of fools, the building of meetinghouses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots,...which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold." No wonder the victims of Whittier must collapse into Dr. Peale's smarmy embrace. What a grisly world...
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Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes

Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 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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