 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
 | Ellwood Johnson - 2005 - 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. Consequently Emerson resisted the fanaticism of the abolitionists until the issue was thrust into his... | |
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...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 education at college of fools; the building of meeting houses to the vain end to which may now stand; alms to sots; and the thousand Relief Societies;... | |
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 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1884 - 890 pages
...Englander on his philanthropical activity, and to find his beneficence and its institutions a bore. " Your miscellaneous popular charities, the education...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... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - 1877 - 720 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." "I like the silent church before the service begins better than any preaching. How far off, how cool,... | |
 | 1919 - 584 pages
...realize thit they have put their money on the wrong horse — the new Chinaman ! Emerson says, *« Your miscellaneous popular charities, the education at college of fools, the building of (YMCA .?) meeting-houses to the vain end to which many of these now stand, alms to sots, and the thousand-fold... | |
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