 ... 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 - 1908 - 324 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... | |
 | Thomas H. Dickinson, Frederick William Roe - 1908 - 506 pages
...his beneficence and its institutions a bore! "Your miscellaneous popular charities, the education 10 at college of fools, the 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... | |
 | 1909 - 540 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. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 496 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. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 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...now stand; alms to sots, and the thousandfold Relief Societies;—though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 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 5 Relief Societies ; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...and sold ; for them I will go to prison, if need be ; but your miscellaneous is popular charities ; the education at college of fools ; the building of...wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood 20 to withhold. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is... | |
 | Margaret Collier Graham - 1911 - 298 pages
...compromise with our lower instead of our better selves. That is the charity of which Emerson wrote, "Though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and...which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold." Another class of beggars are those that beg for influence they could never acquire or for work they... | |
 | William B. Cairns - 1912 - 520 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. To the habitual reader of Emerson, however, statements... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many 35 now stand; alms to sots, and the thousandfold Relief...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... | |
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