Transcriber's Notes:
Simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors were
corrected.
Anachronistic and non-standard spellings retained as printed.
Italics markup is enclosed in _underscores_.
Bold markup is enclosed in =equals=.
Gesperrt markup is enclosed in +plus signs+.
Strike through markup is enclosed in ~tildes~.
Latin capital letter NN ligature is denoted by NN.
Sidenotes with anchors were moved to paragraph footnotes and
renumbered with Roman numeral designators, e.g. [XLII.]
Numeric footnotes at chapter ends were redesignated with
consecutive alphabetic letters, e.g. [AP], and moved to the
ends of the chapters if they weren't already there.
All other footnotes were denoted with Arabic numerals, e.g.
[42], and moved to end notes.