... 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
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 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...many now stand ; alms to sots ; and the thousandfold Eelief Societies ; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 64 pages
...bought and sold; for them Is will go to prison, if need be ; but your miscellaneous popular charities ; the education at college of fools; the building of...many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Belief Societies; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 460 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...dollar, which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold.2 Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 pages
...bought and sold ; for them \ will go to prison if need be ; but your miscellaneous popular charities ; the education at college of fools ; the building of...dollar, which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold.1 Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man... | |
| Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 470 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...end to which many now stand; alms to sots ; and the thousand- fold Relief Societies ; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1859 - 460 pages
...315, note I. In " Self- Reliance " Mr. Emerson confesses, "with shame," to the same fault: "Though I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked...which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold." Page 315, note 2. Exactly opposite Mr. Emerson's house, and but fifty paces from his study, was the... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 404 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 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 - 1904 - 458 pages
...Page 3I5, note I. In " Self-Reliance " Mr. Emerson confesses, "with shame," to the same fault: "Though I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked...which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold." Page3I5, note 2. Exactly opposite Mr. Emerson's house, and but fifty paces from his study, was the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 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-andby I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception... | |
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