[1] In Italian puntiglio[(20)].
[2] Three-quarters of the great French noblemen about 1778 would have been on the high road to prison in a country where the laws were executed without respect of persons.
[3] As the one keeps strict watch on the other in all that touches love, there is less love and more immorality in provincial towns. Italy is luckier.
[4] Every year there is more than one example of women abandoned just as vilely, and so I can pardon suspiciousness in respectable women. Mirabeau, Lettres à Sophie[(21)]. Opinion is powerless in despotic countries: there is nothing solid but the friendship of the pasha.
[5] Leghorn, 1819.
[6] See The Confessions of an Odd-tempered Man. Story by Mrs. Opie.
[7] Letters of Madame du Deffant, Memoirs of Lauzun.
[8] Volney, Tableau des États-Unis d'Amérique, pp. 491–96.
[9] Anyone accustomed to a spectacle like this, who feels the risk of being the hero of such another, may possibly be interested only in its heroic aspect, and, in that case, the spectacle must be the foremost and most intimate of the non-active pleasures.