[45] One who dedicated a new house (somewhat as we name a ship). The glass fire-bucket which quenched the inner conflagration was probably the wine-glass or beer-tumbler.—Tr.
[46] Collegians.—Tr.
[47] Provincial Physician.—Tr.
[48] According to Camper, hectic patients have very white and fair teeth.
[49] Derham (in his Physico-Theology, 1750) observes that the deaf hear best under a noise; e. g. one hard of hearing, under the sound of bells; a deaf housewife, under the drumming of the house-servant. Hence when princes and ministers, who for the most part hear badly, are passing through the country, kettle-drums are beat and cannon fired, so that they can hear the people more easily.
[50] In whose wall the lady with the souvenir sits.
[51] A kind of gray fur.—Tr.
[52] Baireuth.—Tr.
[53] This precocious completion of growth I have observed in many distinguished women, just as if these Psyches should resemble butterflies, which do not grow after coming out of the chrysalis state.
[54] Cloth is roughened with thistles, i.e. scratched up, in order to the better shearing of it afterwards.