[86]: The bust of the Vatican Apollo, by which he would learn to model no other figure than his own.
[87]: There is something in the use and application of the word Wissenschaft which requires for its appreciation an understanding of the peculiar genius of the German mind.—Tr.
[88]: Bacon's remark will recur to the reader.—Tr.
[89]: A solar system is only a dotted profile of the genius of the world, but a human eye is his miniature. The mechanics of the bodies of the universe the mathematical masters of reckoning may calculate, but the dioptrics of the eye, growing bright amidst nothing but dull moistures, transcends our algebraic audit-offices, which therefore cannot reckon away from the imitated eyes (the glasses) the space of diffusion and the narrow field.
[90]: Jean Paul would probably have said Rubicon if he had not been going to say it elsewhere,—e. g. p. 199.
[91]: Hieronym. cont. Jov. L 2.
[92]: Hof means in German both court—and yard.—Tr.
[93]: Bayle's Dictionary, Art. François d'Assise, Note C.
[94]: A half-way house.—Tr.
[95]: Jean Paul probably means, that such noble hearts as Victor's Le Baut might shut up into silence, but could not with his Chamberlain's master-key open and find out their secrets.—Tr.