[76]: A selection of choice learning.—Tr.
[77]: Midsummer-day.—Tr.
[78]: A name given by the Greeks to the Hebrew word Jehovah, which consists, in the original, of four letters.—Tr.
[79]: The thumb of a hanged thief was considered as a lucky-bone.—Tr.
[80]: Full.—Tr.
[81]: Or it went a begging, as we say.—Tr.
[82]: "Rara avis."—Tr.
[83]: [See page 67].—Tr.
[84]: It is precisely the possession of heterogeneous faculties in similar degree that makes one inconsequent and inconsistent; men with one predominant faculty act by it with more equableness. In despotisms there is more quiet than in republics; at the hot equator there is a more even rate of the barometer than in the zones of four seasons.
[85]: One of Burns's words.—Tr.