 ... 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
 | Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 232 pages
...education at college of fools, the 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 shame that I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, yet it is a wicked dollar, which by and by I shall have... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 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...succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 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...succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 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...succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 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-by I shall have the manhood to withhold. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 460 pages
...education at colas lege of fools, the 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 shame that I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, yet it is a wicked dollar, which by and 30 by I shall... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 464 pages
...beneficence and its institutions a bore ! " Your miscellaneous popular charities, the education at col25 lege of fools, the 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 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...succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...and sold ; for them I will go to prison if need be ; but your miscellaneous popular charities ; trie education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses...alms to sots, and the thousandfold Relief Societies ;-^lIiough I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and 47 c. - •' give the dollar, it is a wicked... | |
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