 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
 | Robin Blackburn - 2003 - 562 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.'28 The Second Great Awakening brought to the fore a Protestant belief in the sacred promise... | |
 | Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 pages
...loss of numbers." This he wrote to Fuller while at the very same time claiming in "Self-Reliance" that "there is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual...and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be." In real life, he could not help but take offense at Hedge's letter: "But I am very sorry for Henry... | |
 | Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 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. The general background of substitution could hardly be clearer. What Jesus tequired of one who would... | |
 | Richard Poirier - 2003 - 334 pages
...impart or to invest." Who, then, to wrap this up, are those allies he has in mind when he mentions "the class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold" and for whom "I will go to prison if need be"? Once again, he brings together the market and the prison... | |
 | Bernard J. Lee, Michael A. Cowan - 2003 - 220 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, 1983,262) The message here is the same: we do not belong to each other in any way that obligates... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 2005 - 484 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. These two instances of paradoxes are both allusions to, some might say parodies of, words reported... | |
 | Bernard J. Lee - 2004 - 196 pages
...thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, that I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong. (Emerson, 1983, 70) This motif appears as well in popular media. In the November, 1996, issue of Bon... | |
 | Kenneth B. Kidd - 2004 - 253 pages
...encouraged to appropriate the New Zealander's self-reliance and ignore those who, as Emerson puts it, "do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong" (261). 18 In "Nature" (1836), Emerson casually links child and savage, but in "SelfReliance" he pointedly... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...between self-reliant individualism or natural aristocracy and a republican companionship, not of "such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong," as Emerson says in a famous passage in "Self-Reliance," but of "noble" types bound by "spiritual affinity"... | |
 | Norman A. Newberg - 2006 - 250 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 1865, 52). Some Americans do "grudge the dollar" paid through taxes for social programs. Though... | |
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