[Footnote 347: Blue Laws. Any rigid Sunday laws or religious regulations. The term is usually applied to the early laws of New Haven and Connecticut which regulated personal and religious conduct.] [Footnote 348: Epaminondas. (See note 329.)] [Footnote 349: Olympus. A mountain of Greece, the summit of which, according to Greek mythology, was the home of the gods.] [Footnote 350: Jerseys. Consult a history of the United States for a full account of Washington's campaign in New Jersey.] [Footnote 351: Milton. (See note 151.)] [Footnote 352: Pericles. A famous Greek statesman of the fifth century before Christ, in whose age Athens was preëminent in naval and military affairs and in letters and art.] [Footnote 353: Xenophon. A Greek historian of the fourth century before Christ.] [Footnote 354: Columbus. Give an account of his life.] [Footnote 355: Bayard. Chevalier de Bayard was a French gentleman of the fifteenth century. He is the French national hero, and is called "The Knight without fear and without reproach."] [Footnote 356: Sidney. Probably Sir Philip Sidney, an English gentleman and scholar of the sixteenth century who is the English national hero as Bayard is the French; another brave Englishman was Algernon Sidney, a politician and patriot of the seventeenth century.] [Footnote 357: Hampden. John Hampden was an English statesman and patriot who was killed in the civil war of the seventeenth century.] [Footnote 358: Colossus. The Colossus of Rhodes was a gigantic statue--over a hundred feet in height--of the Rhodian sun god. It was one of the seven wonders of the world; it was destroyed by an earthquake about two hundred years before Christ.] [Footnote 359: Sappho. A Greek poet of the seventh century before Christ. Her fame remains, though most of her poems have been lost.] [Footnote 360: Sevigné. Marquise de Sevigné was a French author of the seventeenth century.] [Footnote 361: De Staël. Madame de Staël was a French writer whose books and political opinions were condemned by Napoleon.] [Footnote 362: Themis. A Greek goddess. The personification of law, order, and justice.] [Footnote 363: A high counsel, etc. Such was the advice given to the Emerson boys by their aunt, Miss. Mary Moody Emerson: "Scorn trifles, lift your aims; do what you are afraid to do; sublimity of character must come from sublimity of motive." Upon her monument are inscribed Emerson's words about her: "She gave high counsels. It was the privilege of certain boys to have this immeasurably high standard indicated to their childhood, a blessing which nothing else in education could supply."] [Footnote 364: Phocion. A Greek general and statesman of the fourth century before Christ who advised the Athenians to make peace with Philip of Macedon. He was put to death on a charge of treason.]