Emerson's Essays Part 12
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[Footnote 708: Petrarch. (See note 563.)]
[Footnote 709: Ariosto. A famous Italian author of the sixteenth century, who wrote comedies, satires, and a metrical romance, _Orlando Furioso_.]
[Footnote 710: "Then shall also the Son", etc. See 1 Corinthians xv. 28: Does Emerson quote the pa.s.sage verbatim?]
[Footnote 711: These manifold tenacious qualities, etc. It is remarked of Emerson that the idea of the symbolism of nature which he received from Plato, was the source of much of his pleasure in Swedenborg, the Swedish mystic philosopher. Emerson says in his volume on Nature: "The n.o.blest ministry of nature is to stand as an apparition of G.o.d."]
[Footnote 712: "Forgive his crimes," etc. This is quoted from _Night Thoughts_ by the English didactic poet, Edward Young.]
[Footnote 713: Pyrrhonism. A doctrine held by a follower of Pyrrho, a Greek philosopher of the third century before Christ, who founded the sceptical school. He taught that it is impossible to attain truth, and that men should be indifferent to all external circ.u.mstances.]
[Footnote 714: I own I am gladdened, etc. Emerson always held fast to the consoling thought that there was no evil without good, none out of which Good did not or could not come.]
[Footnote 715: Sempiternal. Everlasting; eternal.]
[Footnote 716: Oliver Cromwell. An Englishman of the middle cla.s.ses who became the military and civil leader of the English Revolution of the seventeenth century. He refused the t.i.tle of king; but as Lord Protector of the English commonwealth, he exercised royal power.]
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