[234]: As an example, we have now the First Principle of Morals, and that of the Forms of Government.
[235]: Self-government.—Tr.
[236]: See his Amœn. Acad., the treatise on the habitable globe.
[237]: The hysterical ball, i. e. the hysteric morbid feeling, as if a ball were rolling up into the throat.
[238]: Used here by Jean Paul evidently, with figurative freedom, for a Russian swing, but meaning originally a chariot-race (afterward tournament), and derived from currus solis (chariot of the sun).—Tr.
[239]: Conjurer's jargon.—Tr.
[240]: "The Litones were slaves among the old Saxons, who still possessed a third of their property, and could make contracts for it." Flegeljahre, No. 8.—Tr.
[241]: An instrument for determining the blueness of the sky.
[242]: French for a male flirt.—Tr.
[243]: Differing laws.—Tr.