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's office. In England the Herald's College, or College of Arms, is a royal corporation the chief business of which is to grant armorial bearings, or coats of arms, and to trace and preserve genealogies. What does Emerson mean by comparing certain circles of society to this corporation?]
[Footnote 414: Amphitryon. Host; it came to have this meaning from an incident in the story of Amphitryon, a character in Greek legend. At one time Jupiter assumed the form of Amphitryon and gave a banquet. The real Amphitryon came in and asserted that he was master of the house. In the French play, founded on this story, the question is settled by the assertion of the servants and guests that "he who gives the feast is the host."]
[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 Staël. (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 wo
