Part 36

[Footnote 92: Dionysius the Little, a Roman abbot, invented the Christian era.--Tr.]

[Footnote 93: Working-man's holiday.--Tr.]

[Footnote 94: _Mummies_,--one of the titles of the "Invisible Lodge," given in allusion to mixing up of serious and jocose scenes and ideas, as the Egyptians introduced a skeleton at their merry--makings.--Tr.]

[Footnote 95: Financial speculators.--Tr.]

[Footnote 96: According to Scheuchzer, Alps are the best remedy for constipation.]

[Footnote 97: _Horæ_ are the matins in the Catholic convents.--Tr.]

[Footnote 98: Papin, the inventor of the machine for dissolving bones to make them digestible.--Tr.]

[Footnote 99: Galley in which the Doge of Venice wedded the waves.--Tr.]

[Footnote 100: Richter's Idyl, "The Life and Death of the contented Schoolmaster Wutz."--Tr.]

[Footnote 101: "The very sense of being would then be a continued pleasure, such as we now feel it in some few and favored moments of our youth."--Shelley's Notes to Queen Mab.]

[Footnote 102: Such was the name given to the park in the Abbey which Lord Horion in his romantic taste had begun but not finished, because he hit upon the Island of Union. I weave this description of it only fragmentarily in with the incidents.]

[Footnote 103: Trio.--Tr.]

[Footnote 104: In the "Invisible Lodge."--Tr.]

[Footnote 105: Worm-shaped clots of foam.--Tr.]

[Footnote 106: Originally those who bore a ticket from the Emperor recommending them to receive bread (_panis_) from a monastery.--Tr.]

[Footnote 107: "Proper mandates of the sacred imperial majesty."--Tr.]

[Footnote 108: _Befehlhaberisch_ is the German word.--Tr.]

[Footnote 109: Defined by Grimm, "a medical warm-bath prepared over ants and ant-hills."--Tr.]

[Footnote 110: Readiness at turns, repartee, &c.--Tr.]

[Footnote 111: A prim, affected person.--Tr.]

[Footnote 112: I. e. light girls. Jean Paul uses _Dingen_ for the dative in the first instance, and _Dingern_ in the second.--Tr.]

[Footnote 113: For not until he came back from Kussewitz did he learn on the island, from his father, Clotilda's relationship.]

[Footnote 114: Complementary or completing, a musical term.--Tr.]

[Footnote 115: Four points in Lotto, next to the highest.--Tr.]

[Footnote 116: The Roman who wrote much on husbandry and natural history in a gossiping style.--Tr.]

[Footnote 117: The spot in Mecca to which every good Mussulman turns in prayer.--Tr.]

[Footnote 118: One took the silver thread rising and falling in arcs for one continuous rill trickling downward; but the arcs of several diagonally leaping fountains were set at such distances, that one became a continuation of the other.]

[Footnote 119: A term for the ear-flaps.--Tr.]

[Footnote 120: In the moonlight, plants secrete oxygen gas or vital air.]

[Footnote 121: _Third_ in German,--the musical division of time, not however used in our common arithmetical tables.--Tr.]

[Footnote 122: Remember the Author's "Recollections of Life's fairest Hours against the last."--Tr.]

[Footnote 123: "_Sea_-wonders" is the German expression.--Tr.]

[Footnote 124: The translator feels how much he has sacrificed of the simplicity of the language in this song, in endeavoring to keep the rhyme and the silvery rhythm.]

[Footnote 125: "_Nerve_-worm," literally.--Tr.]

[Footnote 126: Pascal.]

[Footnote 127:

"Man's littleness is grandeur in disguise And discontent is immortality."

YOUNG.]

[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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