[Footnote 177: As the spots in the moon are fields of flowers and
plants.]
[Footnote 178: Here ended (in the original) the first volume.--Tr.]
[Footnote 179: So called, as it was made to answer for both bed and
board. See the next sentence but one.--Tr.]
[Footnote 180: The rudiments of printing.--Tr.]
[Footnote 181: He is indignant, it is true, only at the _typographical_
history of learned works, and despises only the anxious search after
the birthdays, &c., of deceased and stupid books in the midst of a
world full of wonders; but here, too, he must needs consider that
brains which can let nothing _press_ upon them more than operations of
the _press_ still do better this little something, which saves and
accumulates most for the better ones, than nothing at all, or anything
beyond their ability.]
[Footnote 182: A name given to screens used for partitions.--Tr.]
[Footnote 183: A well-known good writer on the eyes.]
[Footnote 184: Or crystalline lens?--Tr.]
[Footnote 185: Glands in the eyelids, discovered by Meibom in
1673.--Tr.]
[Footnote 186: A glandule at the corner of the eye, which secretes
moisture.--Tr.]
[Footnote 187: Honeymoon. One of Jean Paul's variations on the
phrase.--Tr.]
[Footnote 188: The Germans are peculiarly rich in synonymes for the
honeymoon. The word used here is _Flitterwochen_ (Spangle-weeks).--Tr.]
[Footnote 189: Moldavian or Wallachian governor.--Tr.]
[Footnote 190: Some of the German written letters are like the Greek.
_Alphabet_ (at the end of the sentence) is a printer's term for 23
sheets.--Tr.]
[Footnote 191: The Fetzpopel, or _ragged ninny_, was a sort of
scarecrow or bugbear.--Tr.]
[Footnote 192: A fistful.--Tr.]
[Footnote 193: An Indian moss used for the gout.--Tr.]
[Footnote 194: An allusion to a scandalous Scotch imposture of
1780.--Tr.]
[Footnote 195: Sledges for riding astraddle.--Tr.]
[Footnote 196: The Britons found out that whalebone shavings made the
softest kind of bed.]
[Footnote 197: The English of this seems to be:--
"Turkey rhubarb powdered.
Starred anise-seed.
Fennel do.
Peel of green orange.
Carbonate of potash,--equal parts,--1 drachm.
Leaves of Alexandrian senna without stalks,--2 drachms.
Half an ounce of white sugar."
And the final direction may read, "Of which let him take a mixture,
finely pulverized, given in sufficient quantity to produce ejection.
Mark [i. e. on the paper], Wind-powders," &c.--Tr.]
[Footnote 198: The name given to the halo about the head, when one is
electrized.]
[Footnote 199: An allusion, perhaps, to the pasteboard images carried
about on the heads of Italian peddlers, in which the loose-hung head
bobs right and left to the spectators.--Tr.]
[Footnote 200: The German expression for all this is too elliptical to
be literally rendered. It is simply "Meinetwegen!" (For all me!)--Tr.]
[Footnote 201: Fancy-man.--Tr.]
[Footnote 202: Their good works are good words.--Tr.]
[Footnote 203: The horse referred to on page 91.--Tr.]
[Footnote 204: That is, he would be, when this letter arrived, for he
was going to carry it.--Tr.]
[Footnote 205: Culpepper never did him the pleasure, for which he had
so often begged him, of prescribing for the Prince a clyster, which
then the apothecary himself would have administered, in order just for
once to _get at_ the ruler, and transform _his_ weak side into his own
sunny side.]
[Footnote 206: When those twins chipped the shell of Leda's egg, out of
which they were born.--Tr.]
[Footnote 207: Literally, "Knapsack."--Tr.]
[Footnote 208: French for clyster.--Tr.]
[Footnote 209: A Greek jurist, compared by Gibbon to Bacon, of great
influence in the first half of the sixth century,--dishonest, but
able.--Tr.]
[Footnote 210: The red-deer, and the wild-boar, bear, badger, &c.--Tr.]
[Footnote 211: i. e. about two kreutzers.--Tr.]
[Footnote 212: Entity.--Tr.]
[Footnote 213: "_Gesegnete Mahlzeit_" is the familiar phrase Richter
uses; it was formerly common, at the close of dinner, to shake hands
and wish "a blessing on the meal."--Tr.]
[Footnote 214:
"Hast thou a friend, take care to keep him,
And often to his threshold wend:
Briers and thorns o'ergrow the path
On which a man neglects to walk."--_Old Saying_.