[186]: Prime Minister to Louis XIV. in the most brilliant part of his reign;—arrogant, cruel, inflexible;—had the chief hand in revoking the Edict of Nantes.—Madame de Maintenon overthrew him.—Tr.
[187]: Tessin was an excellent Swedish count, born in 1695.—Tr.
[188]: Lit. "Spiessfolgedank." So, too, citizens who act as a military guard are called "Spiessbürger."—Tr.
[189]: "By merit raised to that bad eminence."—Tr.
[190]: At the University of Paris they still keep up the messenger from Pomerania, who annually set out for Pomerania, &c. to fetch the Paris students letters from their parents.
[191]: And even there only with reference to immortality and compensation. We feel no injustice when one being becomes a plantation-negro, another an angel of the sun; but their creation begins their claims, and the Eternal cannot, without injustice, purchase even with the sufferings of the minutest creature the joys of all better ones, if it is not made good again to the sufferer.
[192]: The white flesh of the human body and the red veins of blood.—Tr.
[193]: Name given to the believers in the dogma of the Father's suffering on the cross.—Tr.
[194]: A botanical term, meaning literally in one house, and designating Linnæus's twenty-first class of plants, of which the male and female (or barren and bearing) grow on one stock.—Tr.
[195]: A Spanish word, equivalent to Inamorata (or sweetheart).—Tr.