Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Volume I Part 34

[Footnote 221: Sacred musical composition of a stylish character.--Tr.]

[Footnote 222: The Jewish name for Sabbath in the Middle Ages. See Auerbach's Spinoza.--Tr.]

[Footnote 223: Latin for ruins, fragments of old buildings, &c.--Tr.]

[Footnote 224: "He toucheth the hills, and they smoke."--Tr.]

[Footnote 225: December is most favorable to astronomical observations.]

[Footnote 226: A musical direction: Go back to the sign; Begin again.--Tr.]

[Footnote 227: The German word is _Kalte_, which explains the incongruity of our English heading.--Tr.]

[Footnote 228: A word copied exactly from the German, and well enough justified by the a.n.a.logy of _rookery_, for instance.--Tr.]

[Footnote 229: See that n.o.ble pa.s.sage of Milton, beginning

"I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue."--Tr.]

[Footnote 230: I have wholly recast the letter N, because in the first edition I unfortunately had a good idea, which, without recollecting its first publication, I gave the world a second time, as a learned thief of my own property, in the commentary on the woodcuts. [Probably the ones ill.u.s.trating the Ten Commandments, in the _Campaner Thal_, Jean Paul's work on Immortality.--Tr.]]

[Footnote 231: The royal band (of twenty-four).--Tr.]

[Footnote 232: A freethinker and Freemason, in the latter half of the eighteenth century imprisoned, for a certain comedy, in Magdeburg fortress.--Tr.]

[Footnote 233: The highway.--Tr.]

[Footnote 234: As an example, we have now the First Principle of Morals, and that of the Forms of Government.]

[Footnote 235: Self-government.--Tr.]

[Footnote 236: See his _Am[oe]n. Acad_., the treatise on the habitable globe.]

[Footnote 237: The hysterical ball, i. e. the hysteric morbid feeling, as if a ball were rolling up into the throat.]

[Footnote 238: Used here by Jean Paul evidently, with figurative freedom, for a Russian swing, but meaning originally a _chariot-race_ (afterward tournament), and derived from _currus solis_ (chariot of the sun).--Tr.]

[Footnote 239: Conjurer's jargon.--Tr.]

[Footnote 240: "The _Litones_ were slaves among the old Saxons, who still possessed a third of their property, and could make contracts for it." _Flegeljahre_, No. 8.--Tr.]

[Footnote 241: An instrument for determining the blueness of the sky.]

[Footnote 242: French for a male flirt.--Tr.]

[Footnote 243: Differing laws.--Tr.]

[Footnote 244: Axiom in law; named from Brocard, a Bishop of Worms, who made a collection of canons called "Brocardica Juris."--Tr.]

[Footnote 245: Proculus and Sabinus were the founders of two rival schools of jurisprudence in Rome (Proculians and Sabinians) in the first century of our era.--Tr.]

[Footnote 246: A term from the Pandects of Justinian, meaning liabilities to burdens or duties.--Tr.]

[Footnote 247: Alluding to the consolidating of stocks, debts, &c.--Tr.]

[Footnote 248: An Italian astronomer and anatomist, born in 1602.--Tr.]

[Footnote 249: Faust (meaning both fist and the Faust of story) is the word in the original.--Tr.]

[Footnote 250: Or journey.--Tr.]

[Footnote 251: There is a play on words in the original, _Hof_ meaning _court_, and also, when applied to the sun or moon, a _circle_ round the luminary.--Tr.]

[Footnote 252: The original has a slight pun; _uber die Tafel_ meaning both _on the subject_ of the table and _during_ the table (or dinner).--Tr.]

[Footnote 253: A name given to different groups of delicate muscles in certain sensitive parts of the human body.--Tr.]

[Footnote 254: "But where of ye, O tempests, is the goal!

Are ye like those within the human breast, Or do ye find, like eagles, some high nest?"

_Childe Harold_.]

[Footnote 255: The snake-stone sucks at the wound till it has sucked out all the poison.]

[Footnote 256: In a nutsh.e.l.l.--Tr.]

[Footnote 257: The conservative or court party in the French Revolution were called the _noirs_ (blacks), from the fact of the emigrant n.o.bles wearing black velvet. The _Ensrages_ was the name of a radical club.--Tr.]

[Footnote 258: Literally, the game of _man_ (_ombre_, Spanish).--Tr.]

[Footnote 259: Joachime, Clotilda, Victor, and the Devil.]

[Footnote 260: _Mort_ (French) in the original.--Tr.]

[Footnote 261: Manager of the game.--Tr.]

[Footnote 262: Or face-card.--Tr.]

[Footnote 263: No pun in the original.--Tr.]

[Footnote 264: A Parisian anatomiste (b. 1719) persecuted by the profession to London, where she exhibited her wax-skeleton with success.--Tr.]

[Footnote 265: Described on pages 127-134.--Tr.]

[Footnote 266: Entertainments for the G.o.ds, at which their images were laid on couches (_lecti_), and food was served up to them in public.--Tr.]

[Footnote 267: _Panist_ from the Latin _panis_,--an allusion to an old cla.s.s of charity scholars. It might be rendered, _loafer_.--Tr.]

[Footnote 268: Alluding to the long attempts in Germany to fuse the Calvinistie and Lutheran Churches.--Tr.]