[36]: Who would take a hand at nine-pins on coming out of a battle won or lost.—Tr.
[37]: See Titan, Vol. II. p. 1, note.—Tr.
[38]: A liquor made of sulphuric acid, alcohol, sorrel-juice, and water, once much used for gun-shot wounds.—Tr.
[39]: Voetii Select. Disputat. Theol., P. I. p. 918.
[40]: Papin was a physicist and machinist, who invented a machine for softening bones to make a digestible food.—Tr.
[41]: Writers on natural history deny that serpents do drink. But this may allude to some legend.—Tr.
[42]: He calls Death, and the state, a pavior, though in different senses.
[43]: The name given to a high rocky pyramid beside Mont Blanc, containing a hole through which one sees the heavens. It is to me a tender fancy to represent to myself beside the highest mountain, which takes in as much of heaven as of earth, a smaller one, which opens into a narrow prospect offering to our eye a blue telescope, out of which our hope builds the arch of heaven.
[44]: After the death of the Emperor, a wax image of him was kept for seven days in the palace, where it received as his representative ceremonious visits, and, among the rest, of course from the physicians.—Tr.
[45]: Meaning her body. See p. 78.—Tr.