[225]: December is most favorable to astronomical observations.
[226]: A musical direction: Go back to the sign; Begin again.—Tr.
[227]: The German word is Kälte, which explains the incongruity of our English heading.—Tr.
[228]: A word copied exactly from the German, and well enough justified by the analogy of rookery, for instance.—Tr.
[229]: See that noble passage of Milton, beginning
"I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue."—Tr.
[230]: I have wholly recast the letter N, because in the first edition I unfortunately had a good idea, which, without recollecting its first publication, I gave the world a second time, as a learned thief of my own property, in the commentary on the woodcuts. [Probably the ones illustrating the Ten Commandments, in the Campaner Thal, Jean Paul's work on Immortality.—Tr.]
[231]: The royal band (of twenty-four).—Tr.
[232]: A freethinker and Freemason, in the latter half of the eighteenth century imprisoned, for a certain comedy, in Magdeburg fortress.—Tr.
[233]: The highway.—Tr.