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" ... 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 54
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
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Essays. 1901

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...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 13

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Mrs. Lucia Isabella (Gilbert) Runkle, George Henry Warner - 1902 - 446 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...by -and -by I shall have the manhood to withhold. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual...
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So this Then is the Essay on Self-reliance

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...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

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...
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Essays, Volumes 1-2

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...
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A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of ...

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...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life

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...
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The Works of Matthew Arnold, Volume 4

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...
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The Conduct of Life

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...
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The Essay on Self-reliance

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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