[272]: To save the external decencies of virtue.—Tr.
[273]: I. e., O Clarissa! behold your Lovelace; let us skip the first four volumes, and, like the makers of Epics, begin with the rest!
[274]: A kind of fire-alarm.—Tr.
[275]: These terms are adopted as the shortest correspondents of the German bürgerlich and stiftfähig.—Tr.
[276]: He mistakes; Leibnitz only said, everything difficult was light to him, and everything light difficult.
[277]: As the old fellow who carried his pipe in his boot, when his leg was shot off at the battle of Prague, grabbed at his pipe first and then at his leg. (See Old Song.)—Tr.
[278]: "Colors produced on ores by the action of the air."—Adler.
[279]: Viel-Liebe is Jean Paul's word, to match which, after the analogy of Polygamy (marriage to many), we might coin the word Polyagapy (love to many).—Tr.
[280]: Instead of malade imaginaire, an imaginary invalid, she was an imaginary convalescent.—Tr.
[281]: Adjuvans is the ingredient which strengthens the powers of the main ingredients; constituens is what gives the medicine the form of pill, electuary or mixture.