[Footnote 415:  Tuileries.  An old royal residence in Paris which was burned in 1871.]

[Footnote 416:  Escurial, or escorial.  A celebrated royal edifice near Madrid in Spain.]

[Footnote 417:  Hide ourselves as Adam, etc.  See Genesis iii. 8.]

[Footnote 418:  Cardinal Caprara.  An Italian cardinal, Bishop of Milan, who negotiated the famous concordat of 1801, an agreement between the Church and State regulating the relations between civil and ecclesiastical powers.]

[Footnote 419:  The pope.  Pope Pius VII.]

[Footnote 420:  Madame de Stael. (See note 361.)]

[Footnote 421:  Mr. Hazlitt.  William Hazlitt, an English writer.]

[Footnote 422:  Montaigne.  A French essayist of the sixteenth century.]

[Footnote 423:  The hint of tranquillity and self-poise.  It is suggested that Emerson had here in mind a favorite passage of the German author, Richter, in which Richter says of the Greek statues:  “The repose not of weariness but of perfection looks from their eyes and rests upon their lips.”]

[Footnote 424:  A Chinese etiquette.  What does Emerson mean by this expression?]

[Footnote 425:  Recall.  In the first edition, Emerson had here the word “signify.”  Which is the better word and why?]

[Footnote 426:  Measure.  What meaning has this word here?  Is this the sense in which we generally use it?]

[Footnote 427:  Creole natures.  What is a creole?  What does Emerson mean by “Creole natures"?]

[Footnote 428:  Mr. Fox.  Charles James Fox, an English statesman and orator of the eighteenth century.]

[Footnote 429:  Burke.  Both Fox and Burke opposed the taxation of the American colonies and sympathized with their resistance; it was on the subject of the French Revolution that the two friends clashed.]

[Footnote 430:  Sheridan.  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, an Irish dramatist, member of the famous Literary Club to which both Fox and Burke belonged.]

[Footnote 431:  Circe.  According to Greek legend, Circe was a beautiful enchantress.  Men who partook of the draught she offered, were turned to swine.]

[Footnote 432:  Captain Symmes.  The only real personage of this group.  He asserted that there was an opening to the interior of the earth which was stocked with plants and animals.]

[Footnote 433:  Clerisy.  What word would we be more apt to use here?]

[Footnote 434:  St. Michael’s (Square).  St. Michael’s was an order instituted by Louis XI. of France.]

[Footnote 435:  Cologne water.  A perfumed water first made at the city of Cologne in Germany, from which it took its name.]

[Footnote 436:  Poland.  This kingdom of Europe was, in the eighteenth century, taken possession of and divided among its powerful neighbors, Russia, Prussia, and Austria.]

[Footnote 437:  Philhellene.  Friend of Greece.]