 ... 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 affinity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if...  Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series - Page 54by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...them I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at the college of fools; the building of meetinghouses to...which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold <I We have seen many counterfeits, but we are born believers in great men. VIRTUES are in the popular... | |
 | Maurice Garland Fulton - 1918 - 448 pages
...activity, and to find his "beneficence and its institutions a bore! "Your miscellaneous popular charities, the education at college of fools, the building of meetinghouses to the vain end to which many of these nofy.' stand, alms to sots, and the thousandfold relief societies^-though I confess with shame... | |
 | David Graham - 1919 - 184 pages
...possible solvent of error and absurdity. Even ill-judged charity is a curse. " The education at colleges of fools ; the building of meeting-houses to the vain...end to which many now stand ; alms to sots and the 1 Lectures, vol. i. pp. 42, 63. thousand-fold relief societies ; — although I confess with shame... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 pages
...bought and sold; for them I will go to prison if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of...Relief Societies; — though I confess with shame I sometime succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by and by I shall have the manhood... | |
 | Ulysses Grant King - 1921 - 302 pages
...and sold; for them I will go to prison if need be, — but your miscellaneous popular charities, — the education at college of fools; the building of...vain end to which many now stand, alms to sots, and thousand-fold Relief Societies; — tho I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1922 - 314 pages
...will go to prison, if need be ; but your mi* cellaneous popular charities; the education at college ol fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain...many now stand ; alms to sots, and the thousandfold 5 Relief Societies ; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...bought and sold ; for them I will go to prison, if need be ; but your miscellaneous popular charities ; the education at college of fools ; the building of...and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and^bv I shall have the manhood to withhold. ^l/4/t Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...your miscellaneous popular charities; t education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houa to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots, an the thousand-fold Relief Societies; — • though I confess wi shame I sometimes succumb and give... | |
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