[153] Plaut. Bacch., Act 4, Scen. 7, 4, 16, 17.
[154] Seventh Part of the new Collection of Travels.
[155] I speak more particularly of the daughters, because they are the most frequent and greatest victims; the sons are bloodless mass-offerings.
[156] Pliny, Nat. Hist., VIII. 16.
[157] And this is quite probable. Dr. Edward Hill reckoned that in England eight thousand die annually of unhappy love,—of broken hearts, as the Englishwomen touchingly express it. Beddoes shows that vegetable food—and of this such victims are particularly fond—fosters consumption, and that females incline to this. Besides, the times of longing, which of itself, even without disappointment, as homesickness shows, is a poisonous revolving leaden ball, occur in youth, when the seed of pectoral maladies most easily springs up. O many married ones fall, under misconstructions, victims to the death-angel, into whose hand they had, previously to marriage, put the sword they themselves had sharpened!
[158] Forster's Views, Vol. I.
[159] A line (French) is one twelfth of an inch.—Tr.
[160] Because he had just said he did not know her.—Tr.
[161] Weigel. in Jena, invented the inverted bridge (pons heteroclitus), a stairway on which a person seems to descend, by going up.—Bush's Handbook of Inventions, Vol. VII.
[162] It had the name from its height and its being so often struck with lightning.