[124] In a more loose and general sense, every man of respectable appearance is called a gentleman.
[125] This has nothing to do with morality, only with ‘scandale.’
[126] So the Irish delight to call him, proud of his ‘landsmannschaft (countrymanship).
[127] This is no exaggeration. I have heard such things here, proved by legal evidence, and seen such misery as never were witnessed in the times of villanage in Germany, and are hardly to be paralleled in countries where slavery now prevails.—Editor.
[128] I have often had occasion to remark, that the love of music in England is a mere affair of fashion. There is no nation in Europe which plays music better or understands it worse.
[129] “Böhmische Dörfer.” The jeu de mots is inevitably lost.—Transl.
[130] An excellent dish! the receipt, vivâ voce.
[131] Eligible to certain chapters and ecclesiastical orders, to which none could be admitted who could not prove their seventy-two quarterings.—Transl.
[132] The maître d’hotel who lately published Memoirs of Napoleon, vindicates the Emperor from this reproach with indignation. His memoirs are certainly most flattering to that great man, for they prove ‘qu’il est resté héros même pour son valet de chambre.’—Edit.
[133] Poetry and Truth,—the title of Göthe’s auto-biographical work.