[28]: Fou' is the Scotch for tipsy. See Burns. A German proverb runs: "Voll-toll." These are Jean Paul's words, "Full and foolish."--(Tr.)
[29]: Pantheon?--(Tr.)
[30]: This remark has in the la««t twenty years, if not in France yet in Germany, become much less extensively applicable.
[31]: "Gild refined gold." etc.--(Tr.)
[32]: In a child's story-telling there is the same contempt of finery, of side-glances and brevity, the same naiveté, which often seems to us caprice and yet is not, and the same forgetting of the narrator in the narrative, that we find in the stories of the Bible, the elder Greeks, etc.
[33]: What the moderns write in the taste of the ancients is little understood; and can it be that the ancients themselves are so frequently understood?
[34]: Do all Germans, then, feel the Messiah who are at home in the German language and Biblical history?
[35]: Lit.: "Philanthropin." A natural system of education instituted by Basidow.--(Tr.)
[36]: A word coined by Harvey, signifying a corrupt condition of the fluids of the body--hence ill-humor.--(Tr.)
[37]: The Vehmgericht.--(Tr.)