[105]: Plin. H. N. vii. 48.
[106]: She refers to the widow’s pension.
[107]: Because it was supposed to be in English verse.—Trans.
[108]: In the ranunculus, brown wort, the lower part of the stalk sinks deeper into the ground every year, to replace the root as it rots away.
[109]: In enthusiasm, the converse order of things prevails. To learn to know what your firmly established principles of morality are, with more certainty than you can from your resolves and actions, you have only to notice the joy or the sorrow which a moral claim, a piece of news, a disappointment, calls up in you with lightning speed, but which disappears again at once under the influence of reflection and self-control. What great, rotting pieces of the old Adam one finds about one still, now and then!
[110]: The wife of Pinarius, under the government of Tarquinius Superbus, was the first woman to quarrel with her mother-in-law (Plut. in Numa). German history will, perhaps, some day make honourable mention of the first married woman who did not quarrel with her mother-in-law; at least a German Plutarch should set about hunting her out.
[111]: Allusion to a certain waterfall which dashes from its rock with a sweep so wide that one can walk under it, and thus be protected front rain.—‘An Artist’s Journey in the Alps.’
[112]: A bugbear, nine feet high, made of bark and straw, with which the Mandingoes terrify and better their wives.
[113]: Walter’s ‘Physiology.’
[114]: There are one thousand millions of us crawling on this sphere.