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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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Mental Evolution

Ulysses Grant King - 1921 - 302 pages
...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...vain end to which many now stand, alms to sots, and thousand-fold Relief Societies; — tho I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar,...
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Select Essays and Addresses, Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1922 - 314 pages
...will go to prison, if need be ; but your mi* cellaneous popular charities; the education at college ol fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain...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...
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Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an Introd

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 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^bv I shall have the manhood to withhold. ^l/4/t Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the...
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Selections from the Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...your miscellaneous popular charities; t education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houa to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots, an the thousand-fold Relief Societies; — • though I confess wi shame I sometimes succumb and give...
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American Philanthropy

Robert H. Bremner - 1988 - 313 pages
...not to come to his door begging for "your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at colleges of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain...alms to sots, and the thousandfold Relief Societies." Thoreau scorned "a charity which dispenses the crumbs that fall from its overload tables, which are...
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Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian ...

Stanley Cavell - 1990 - 207 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...which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Updike at once replies, "A doctrine of righteous selfishness is here propounded." Bloom takes a little...
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Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian ...

Stanley Cavell - 1990 - 207 pages
...paragraph of "Self-Reliance" Emerson remarks of his sometimes succumbing to calls for philanthropy, "It is a wicked dollar, which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold," we need not, we should not, take him to imagine himself as achieving a further state of humanity in...
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Giving: Charity and Philanthropy in History

Robert H. Bremner - 260 pages
...me." He told a "foolish philanthropist" that he had no use for "your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of...now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies."9 Slavery, the issue in reform in the mid-nineteenth-century United States, was a subject...
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Vanguards & Followers: Youth in the American Tradition

1995 - 286 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...thousand-fold Relief Societies; though I confess with shame 1 sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by and by I shall have the manhood...
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From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest

Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 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...which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold. (Essays, 263) In "An Emerson Mood," Stanley Cavell has explored Emerson's transformation of religious...
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