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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Church and State regulating the relations between civil and
ecclesiastical powers.]

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

[Footnote 420: Madame de Staƫl. (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
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