[78]: In German, Muck! like the snapping noise of the dog when flies torment his sleep.—Tr.
[79]: Most women are not gallows-paters [confessors] properly, gallows-maters and female barrack-preachers, until they are full of the Devil, as Sterne had the most conceits when he was not well.
[80]: Sixth and fifth months of the French Republican calendar.—Tr.
[81]: February changed to August.—Tr.
[82]: A grated Place in Paris, where they expose the dead found during the night, that every one may find his relative.
[83]: Great is the soul which, like him, with none but enemies around him, renounces all power,—greater is the people, before which one could venture to do it. Another people would have anticipated Sulla's lice. [Alluding to a loathsome disease which beset him late in life, called the morbus pediculosus.—Tr.]
[84]: Victor took for his union ten persons, perhaps because exactly that number is required to make a riot. Hommel, Rhapsod. observat. CCXXV.
[85]: The 4th of August, 1789, was the memorable night in which all the represented upper estates formally renounced their old privileges.—Tr.
[86]: Literally brain-borer.—Tr.
[87]: Job xxxvi. 21: "Take heed, regard not iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction."—Tr.