 Then again, do not tell me, as a good man did today, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong...  Essays - Page 47by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Gordon C. F. Bearn - 1997 - 304 pages
...will help others echoes Emerson. Emerson spurned "miscellaneous popular charities," but conceded that "there is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold." "Self- Reliance" ( 1841 ), in Emerson: Essays and Lectures (New York: Library of America, 1983), p.... | |
 | Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 pages
...note is that Emerson's rhetorical, ambiguous mode of reference to slavery in this passage — "[tjhere is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold" — stages on a discursive level his ambivalence about joining the abolitionist movement. Just as,... | |
 | Richard G. Geldard - 1999 - 200 pages
...tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong....There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual aff1nity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Petrino - 1998 - 260 pages
...Emerson condemns the "foolish philanthropist" for giving to "the thousandfold Relief Societies" when "there is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold,'"" nineteenth-century American women were willing to submit poems for publication in service of a higher... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 580 pages
...counteraction to this world of material & ephemeral interest." In "Self-Reliance" he had said proudly: "There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual...and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be." Trying to help other writers never got him imprisoned, but it did make demands upon his time, his sympathy,... | |
 | Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
...tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the 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 and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar... | |
 | Gustaaf Van Cromphout - 1999 - 196 pages
...tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong. . . . Though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which... | |
 | Edward W. Lehman - 2000 - 276 pages
...tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me, and to whom I do not belong."13 Political society, in this view, is created as a matter of utility for the better fulfillment... | |
 | T. Gregory Garvey - 2001 - 310 pages
..."foolish philanthropist," for example, Emerson in "Self-Reliance" had dismissed the claims "of such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong," adding: "There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them... | |
 | Martin Schoenhals, Joseph E. Behar - 2001 - 294 pages
...men in good situations. Are they my poor? ...I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong" (p. 304). In a world of feudal enclaves, it will be far too tempting to extend the principle of self-reliance... | |
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