 ... 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
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 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 meeting-houses to the vain end to which many 35 now stand; alms to sots, and the thousandfold Relief Societies; — though I confess with shame... | |
 | Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 556 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... | |
 | Sir Dinshaw Edulji Wacha - 1915 - 250 pages
...131 meeting houses to the vain end of which many now stand ; alms to sots ; and all the thousand fold relief societies ; though I confess with shame I sometimes...which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold." And so it was with Mr. Tata : • this manhood was his. (Loud applause.) I have spoken of Mr. Tata's... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...and sold ; for them I will go to prison if need be ; but your miscellaneous popular 25 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... | |
 | William Mackintire Salter - 1917 - 560 pages
...appeals, calling it a "wicked dollar" that he on occasion gave for "your miscellaneous popular charities, the education at college of fools, the building of...now stand, alms to sots, and the thousandfold Relief Societies."7 In one of Stendhal's novels a Jew has a bad conscience when he falls in love and takes... | |
 | William Mackintire Salter - 1917 - 566 pages
...appeals, calling it a "wicked dollar" that he on occasion gave for "your miscellaneous popular charities, the education at college of fools, the building of...many now stand, alms to sots, and the thousandfold Belief Societies."7 In one of Stendhal's novels a Jew has a bad conscience when he falls in love and... | |
 | 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... | |
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