 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 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....need be ; but your miscellaneous popular charities ; trie education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many... | |
 | Hugh Black - 1901 - 362 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." Emerson was personally saved from all that this seems to mean by his temper of mind, his idealism,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 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....spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them Is will go to prison, if need be ; but your miscellaneous popular charities ; the education at college... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 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....spiritual affinity I am bought and sold ; for them \ will go to prison if need be ; but your miscellaneous popular charities ; the education at college... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 404 pages
...Englander on his philanthropical activity, and to find his beneficence and its institutions a bore ! ' Your miscellaneous popular charities, the education...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... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 460 pages
...Englander on his philanthropical activity, and to find his beneficence and its institutions a bore! " Your miscellaneous popular charities, the education...building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many of these now stand, alms to sots, and the thousandfold relief societies, — though I confess with... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1906 - 556 pages
...Englander on his philanthropical activity, and to find his beneficence and its institutions a bore! "Your miscellaneous popular charities, the education...building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many of these now stand, alms to sots, and the thousandfold relief societies—tho I confess with shame... | |
 | William Thompson - 1906 - 486 pages
...asks, " Are they my poor ? I tell thee, 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...I 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....whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold ; 10 for them I will go to prison if need be ; but your miscellaneous popular charities ; the education... | |
 | Thomas H. Dickinson, Frederick William Roe - 1908 - 506 pages
...his beneficence and its institutions a bore! "Your miscellaneous popular charities, the education 10 at college of fools, the building of meetinghouses to the vain end to which many of these now stand, alms to sots, and the thousandfold relief societies,— though I confess with shame... | |
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