Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Volume I Part 35

[Footnote 269: _Musicus_ here, not _musicant_, which latter means the more common performer, fiddler, or whatever else.--Tr.]

[Footnote 270: Father confessor.--Tr.]

[Footnote 271: Plutarch mentions how vain Pompey's cavaliers were of their personal appearance, and that Caesar accordingly directed his soldiers to aim at their faces; "for Caesar hoped that those young cavaliers who had not been used to wars and wounds, and who set a great value on their beauty, would avoid above all things a stroke in that part, and immediately give way, as well on account of the present danger as the future deformity. The event answered his expectation."--Tr.]

[Footnote 272: To save the external decencies of virtue.--Tr.]

[Footnote 273: I. e., O Clarissa! behold your Lovelace; let us skip the first four volumes, and, like the makers of Epics, begin with the rest!]

[Footnote 274: A kind of fire-alarm.--Tr.]

[Footnote 275: These terms are adopted as the shortest correspondents of the German _burgerlich_ and _stiftfahig_.--Tr.]

[Footnote 276: He mistakes; Leibnitz only said, everything difficult was light to him, and everything light difficult.]

[Footnote 277: As the old fellow who carried his pipe in his boot, when his leg was shot off at the battle of Prague, grabbed at his pipe first and then at his leg. (See Old Song.)--Tr.]

[Footnote 278: "Colors produced on ores by the action of the air."--Adler.]

[Footnote 279: _Viel-Liebe_ is Jean Paul's word, to match which, after the a.n.a.logy of Polygamy (marriage to many), we might coin the word _Polyagapy_ (love to many).--Tr.]

[Footnote 280: Instead of _malade imaginaire_, an imaginary invalid, she was an imaginary _convalescent_.--Tr.]

[Footnote 281: _Adjuvans_ is the ingredient which strengthens the powers of the main ingredients; _const.i.tuens_ is what gives the medicine the form of pill, electuary or mixture.]

[Footnote 282: One weeps, one cries, one sighs, one lies, one raves, one kills, one dies,--in fine, one gives himself to all the devils, in order to have his angel.--Tr.]

[Footnote 283: As we say _pea-soup_, _vermicelli-soup_.]

[Footnote 284: Referring to the one whose marriage to the Senior Parson's daughter Victor witnessed that night from his window.--Tr.]

[Footnote 285: See note to page 194.--Tr.]

[Footnote 286: Of course, Procrustes.--Tr.]

[Footnote 287: Cheeks.--Tr.]

[Footnote 288: The G.o.d of sleep was attended by three beings: _Phantasus_, who could change himself only into lifeless things; _Phobetor_, who could a.s.sume and conjure up all animal forms; and _Moropheus_, who could, all human forms. Metamorph. Lib. II. Fab. 10.]

[Footnote 289: Painter's colics.--Tr.]

[Footnote 290: "Seed to the sower and bread to the eater."

(Isaiah.)--Tr.]

[Footnote 291: Nor yet by a luxury, whose magnitude one exaggerates in comparing their outlays with our income, and which injured them only in this way, that they inherited the nations like East Indian cousins. It was that of a cobbler who has won the highest prize in the lottery; it was the squandering of a soldier after the plundering. Hence they had luxury without refinement. It could maintain its greatness only by growing greater. Had one thrown to them America with its gold bars, they might, with greater luxury, have gone on this crutch some centuries longer.]

[Footnote 292: It is well known that the head of the poor negro is shut up in a hollow one of iron, which presses down his tongue.]

[Footnote 293: Written in the year 1792.]

[Footnote 294: The millionnaire presupposes the beggar, the scholar, the Helot; the higher culture of individuals is purchased by the degradation of the ma.s.s.]

[Footnote 295: Written in 1792. At present the tempest which once stood in the heavens over all Europe lies out there in the level earth.]

[Footnote 296: For after 400,000 years the earth's axis, as Jupiter's is now, will be perpendicular to the plane of its...o...b..t.]

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