[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.] [Footnote 438: As Heaven and Earth are fairer far, etc. This passage is quoted from Book II. of Keats' _Hyperion_.] [Footnote 439: Waverley. The Waverley novels, a name applied to all of Scott's novels from _Waverley_, the title of the first one.] [Footnote 440: Robin Hood. An English outlaw and popular hero, the subject of many ballads.] [Footnote 441: Minerva. In Roman mythology, the goddess of wisdom corresponding to the Greek Pallas-Athene.] [Footnote 442: Juno. In Roman mythology, the wife of the supreme god Jupiter.] [Footnote 443: Polymnia. In Greek mythology, one of the nine muses who presided over sacred poetry; the name is more usually written Polyhymia.] [Footnote 444: Delphic Sibyl. In ancient mythology, the Sibyls were certain women who possessed the power of prophecy. One of these who made her abode at Delphi in Greece was called the Delphian, or Delphic, sibyl.]