[Footnote 128: Here ended Richter's third volume.--Tr.]
[Footnote 129: Last-First, or _the cart before the horse_.--Tr.]
[Footnote 130: The name given to a harpsichord which notes down
everything that it plays.]
[Footnote 131: The term applied to the abridged title of a book
recurring at the bottom of every sheet.]
[Footnote 132: The gradual sapping of logical strictness by moral
freedom.--Tr.]
[Footnote 133: The getting of its Eastings through the Practical
Reason.]
[Footnote 134: Opposition of laws. And yet _antinomian_ is an opponent
of law.--Tr.]
[Footnote 135: Named after its discoverer.--Tr.]
[Footnote 136: The _Zwinger_ is originally the narrow interval between
the town-wall and the town itself.--Tr.]
[Footnote 137: The sensuous images of the ancient Greek
philosophers.--Tr.]
[Footnote 138: Flamin.--Tr.]
[Footnote 139: D'Israeli, in his "Curiosities of Literature" (Art.
_Literary Follies_), ascribes this to one Gregorio Leti, who, he says,
presented a discourse to the Academy of the Humorists at Rome,
throughout which he had purposely omitted the letter R, and he entitled
it, "_The exiled R_."--Tr.]
[Footnote 140: The R disbanded.--Tr.]
[Footnote 141: A name given by the Romans to the slave who carried the
children's school-books after them.--Tr.]
[Footnote 142: "Decency adds to the pleasures of indecency; virtue is
the salt of love; but don't take too much of it.--I love in woman
bursts of anger, of grief, of joy, of fear; there is always in their
boiling blood something which is favorable to men.--It is where
_finesse_ falls short, that enthusiasm is needed.--Women are rarely
astonished at being thought weak; it is at the contrary that they are
somewhat astonished.--Love always pardons love, rarely reason."--Tr.]
[Footnote 143: Such was the title Stevens gave his satirical
college-lectures on pasteboard heads, which half London ran after.]
[Footnote 144: Lacon says: "As to time without an end and space without
a limit, these are two things that finite beings cannot clearly
comprehend. But ... there are two things much more incomprehensible,
... time that _has_ an end and space that _has_ a limit. For whatever
limits these two things must be itself unlimited, and I am at a loss to
conceive where it can exist except in space and time."--Tr.]
[Footnote 145: Peristaltic.--Tr.]
[Footnote 146: That part of the nose happens also to be called its root
in German.--Tr.]
[Footnote 147: The rough breathing (in Greek) which has a crooked
shape, thus: (').-Tr.]
[Footnote 148: The Pharisees did it,--like certain Jews, who also
always walked bent, and so were called _crooklings_,--in order to leave
a little room for God who fills the whole earth.--_Ancient and Modern
Judaism_, Vol. II. p. 47.]
[Footnote 149: Thus did Emanuel always name St. John's day, though not
with perfect astronomical accuracy.]
[Footnote 150: See Dr. Thomas Brown's Mental Philosophy on the subject
of consciousness.--Tr.]
[Footnote 151: In the second part of the second volume.]
[Footnote 152: Page 266.--Tr.]
[Footnote 153: I. e. On the dial-plate of our inner life.--Tr.]
[Footnote 154: Complementary parts in music.--Tr.]
[Footnote 155: The sun when eclipsed by the moon is beheld by us in a
crape-covered [or smoked] glass.]
[Footnote 156: The seas of our earth look in the distance like the
spots of the moon.]
[Footnote 157: The halo round the moon.]
[Footnote 158: The Upas-tree.--Tr.]
[Footnote 159: _Balloon_ (inventor of the).--Tr.]
[Footnote 160: Depreciation (of money).--Tr.]
[Footnote 161: Allusions to cloud filled with pictured lands and
islands which one sees at morning on looking down from Mount Ætna.]
[Footnote 162: A term taken from wine-making, meaning the unpressed
wine, the first runnings.--Tr.]
[Footnote 163: Chamberlains wear, as a decoration, three gold buttons
over the right pocket-lappet.--Tr.]
[Footnote 164: _Preciste_ in the original: one nominated to a benefice
in virtue of the right of first petition.--Tr.]
[Footnote 165: Original: "Gotzsurthel,"--properly
_Gottesurtheil_.--Tr.]
[Footnote 166: The dragon was an old-fashioned war-machine.--Tr.]
[Footnote 167: Color of burnt bones.--Tr.]
[Footnote 168: The old astronomers inserted between the fixed stars and
the planets a tremulous heaven, in order to have something on which to
charge the slight anomalies of the latter bodies.]
[Footnote 169: Nine dancing-women are strung together to make an
elephant for the king. One makes the trunk; four, the legs; four, the
body. History of all Travels, Vol. X.]
[Footnote 170: An old German name affixed to apothecaries, in allusion
to the alleged profits on their drugs.--Tr.]
[Footnote 171: The little finger. The German name is kept for the sake
of the allusion.--Tr.]
[Footnote 172: All this is neatly summed up in the witty Frenchman's
saying, "Gratitude is a keen sense of favors _to come_."--Tr.]
[Footnote 173: These oaths of silence, as is well known, his Lordship
had required of Victor, Clotilda, and her mother, with all that tragic
circumstance which takes so strong a hold especially on female hearts.]
[Footnote 174: Victor, Julius, Flamin.]
[Footnote 175: She well knows that it was Victor.]
[Footnote 176: This poison-tree stands in a bald waste, because it
kills everything around it; and the malefactor journeys alone to its
poison, but he seldom returns. [This has been ascertained to be
fabulous. There is a poisonous valley encircled by banks emitting a
fatal carbonic-acid gas, but no tree grows there, and the upas grows in
the woods among other trees without harming them.--Tr.]]
[Footnote 177: Lind in Kussewitz.]
[Footnote 178: Around numbers of chapels (see Schlötzer's
Correspondence, Part III. Vol. XVIII. 45) stand warehouses of wax limbs
and animals, which they buy as ear-rings and bracelets for the saints,
in order that the originals may be healed.]
[Footnote 179: Of making one's self invulnerable.--Tr.]
[Footnote 180: The Centaurs could not prostrate him with trees, but had
to press him, as he stood erect, into the earth. Orph. Argonaut. 168.]
[Footnote 181: Ankerstrœm was a Swedish regicide, born 1759, and
executed, for killing Gustavus III., in 1792.--Tr.]
[Footnote 182: The name given to a certain elevation above the sea,
determined by Bouger, at which the mountains in all zones are covered
with snow.]
[Footnote 183: _Blutschuld_,--forfeiture of life (_Schuld_ meaning both
_debt_ and _guilt_).--Tr.]
[Footnote 184: Died in 1800. He was a famous and forcible writer
against the French Revolution and the Jacobin clubs, from which latter
he drew on himself extreme odium. He wrote "Historical Sketches and
Political Observations on the French Revolution," in seventeen
volumes.--Tr.]
[Footnote 185: A piece of iron that made speaking impossible.--Tr.]
[Footnote 186: Prime Minister to Louis XIV. in the most brilliant part
of his reign;--arrogant, cruel, inflexible;--had the chief hand in
revoking the Edict of Nantes.--Madame de Maintenon overthrew him.--Tr.]
[Footnote 187: Tessin was an excellent Swedish count, born in
1695.--Tr.]
[Footnote 188: Lit. "Spiessfolgedank." So, too, citizens who act as a
military guard are called "Spiessbürger."--Tr.]
[Footnote 189: "By merit raised to that bad eminence."--Tr.]
[Footnote 190: At the University of Paris they still keep up the
_messenger from Pomerania_, who annually set out for Pomerania, &c. to
fetch the Paris students letters from their parents.]
[Footnote 191: And even there only with reference to immortality
and compensation. We feel no injustice when one being becomes a
plantation-negro, another an angel of the sun; but their creation begins
their claims, and the Eternal cannot, without injustice, purchase even
with the sufferings of the minutest creature the joys of all better ones,
if it is not made good again to the sufferer.]
[Footnote 192: The white flesh of the human body and the red veins of
blood.--Tr.]
[Footnote 193: Name given to the believers in the dogma of the
_Father's_ suffering on the cross.--Tr.]
[Footnote 194: A botanical term, meaning literally _in one house_, and
designating Linnæus's twenty-first class of plants, of which the male
and female (or barren and bearing) grow on one stock.--Tr.]
[Footnote 195: A Spanish word, equivalent to _Inamorata_ (or
sweetheart).--Tr.]
[Footnote 196: _Feder_ means, in German, both _feather_ and _pen_, as
_plume_ and _penna_, in French and Latin, mean both _feather_ and
_quill_.--Tr.]
[Footnote 197: In the original, _Nummern-vogel_ (numbered bird). As to
the 99 [i. e. per cent.] on Zeusel, see page 368.--Tr.]
[Footnote 198: Literally: _Ich mache Wind_.--Tr.]
[Footnote 199: Spies.--Tr.]
[Footnote 200: Geographical writers.--Tr.]
[Footnote 201: Patchwork,--a term applied also to poems plagiarized
from all quarters.--Tr.]
[Footnote 202: A cap worn by those who take up hives, to defend them
against stings.--Tr.]
[Footnote 203: The Lutheran and Reformed:--at the Diet of Augsburg, in
1555.--Tr.]
[Footnote 204: And I here with pleasure hold out to the public hope of
my own biography, wherewith, when I shall have lived out a few more
indispensable chapters of it, I propose to present it under the title,
Jean Paul's Acts of the Apostles, or his Actions, Experiences, and
Opinions.]
[Footnote 205: Or _lith_ographic, only _petro_ is used designedly with
a _moral_ reference.--Tr.]
[Footnote 206: Children of a European and an American Indian.--Tr.]
[Footnote 207: Children of Terceroons, who again are children of
Mulattoes and whites.]
[Footnote 208: Alluding to Justinian's new statutes.--Tr.]
[Footnote 209: _Blutjung_ is the German; a vulgarism, corresponding,
perhaps, to the English _bloody_-young,--Tr.]
[Footnote 210: Gideon Ernest Laudon (Baron) was a great soldier and
captain, born in 1716. The Emperor of Austria, under whom he chiefly
served, had the following epitaph written for him: "Gideonis Laudoni
summi castrorum præfecti, semper strenui, fortis, felicis militis et
civis optimi exemplum quod duces militesque imitentur Josephus 11 Aug.
in ejus effigie proponi voluit, anno 1783."--Tr.]
[Footnote 211: The Swan is Giulia; the Lyre of Apollo, Emanuel;
Hercules reminded one of his Lordship.]
[Footnote 212: It is estimated that one can read 60 letters in a
second, consequently a moderate octavo page in 16 seconds, therefore an
alphabet (Printer's term for 23 sheets--Tr.) in an hour 42 minutes 24
seconds. My book I assume to be one alphabet and a half strong.]
[Footnote 213: The Ten Predicaments are the various aspects or
relations under which things may be considered.--Tr.]
[Footnote 214: _Cry into himself_, is the German.]
[Footnote 215: The zodiacal light manifests the dipping of the earth
into the sun's atmosphere.]
[Footnote 216: See Vol. II. p. 74.]
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