[180]: The rudiments of printing.—Tr.
[181]: He is indignant, it is true, only at the typographical history of learned works, and despises only the anxious search after the birthdays, &c., of deceased and stupid books in the midst of a world full of wonders; but here, too, he must needs consider that brains which can let nothing press upon them more than operations of the press still do better this little something, which saves and accumulates most for the better ones, than nothing at all, or anything beyond their ability.
[182]: A name given to screens used for partitions.—Tr.
[183]: A well-known good writer on the eyes.
[184]: Or crystalline lens?—Tr.
[185]: Glands in the eyelids, discovered by Meibom in 1673.—Tr.
[186]: A glandule at the corner of the eye, which secretes moisture.—Tr.
[187]: Honeymoon. One of Jean Paul's variations on the phrase.—Tr.
[188]: The Germans are peculiarly rich in synonymes for the honeymoon. The word used here is Flitterwochen (Spangle-weeks).—Tr.
[189]: Moldavian or Wallachian governor.—Tr.