Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson  by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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			[Footnote 202: George Fox (1624-1691), English founder of the Society 
			of Friends or Quakers.] [Footnote 203: John Wesley (1703-1791), English founder of the religious sect known as Methodists.] [Footnote 204: Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846), English philanthropist and abolitionist.] [Footnote 205: Scipio (235-184 B.C.), the great Roman general who defeated Hannibal and decided the fate of Carthage. The quotation is from _Paradise Lost_, Book IX., line 610.] [Footnote 206: In the story of _Abou Hassan_ or _The Sleeper Awakened_ in the _Arabian Nights_ Abou Hassan awakes and finds himself treated in every respect as the Caliph Haroun Al-raschid. Shakespeare has made use of a similar trick in _Taming of the Shrew_, where Christopher Sly is put to bed drunk in the lord's room and on awaking is treated as a lord.] [Footnote 207: Alfred the Great (849-901), King of the West Saxons. He was a wise king, a great scholar, and a patron of learning.] [Footnote 208: Scanderbeg, George Castriota (1404-1467), an Albanian chief who embraced Christianity and carried on a successful war against the Turks.] [Footnote 209: Gustavus Adolphus (1594-1632), King of Sweden, the hero of Protestantism in the Thirty Years' War.]  | 
		
			
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