Chapter XIII: Part 13

[Footnote 46: In German, as in some other languages, the common mode of address is by the _third_ person; plural, it indicates respect; singular, command; the _second_ person is also used; plural, it generally denotes indifference; singular, great familiarity, and sometimes its product, contempt. _Dutzenfreund_, _Thouing-friend_, is the strictest term of intimacy; and among the wild _Burschen_ (Students) many a duel (happily however, often ending like the _Polemo-Middinia_ in one drop of blood) has been fought, in consequence of saying _Du_ (thou) and _Sie_ (they) in the wrong place.--Ed.]

[Footnote 47: These antique Christmas festivities Richter describes with equal _gusto_ in another work (_Briefe und Zukuenftige Lebenslemf_); where the Christ-child (falsely reported to the young ones to have been seen flying through the air, with gold wings); the Birch-bough fixed in a corner of the room, and by him made to grow; the fruit of gilt sweetmeats, apples, nuts, which (for good boys) it suddenly produces, &c., &c., are specified with the same fidelity as here.--Ed.]

[Footnote 48: Which he purposed to make for his Island of St. Pierre in the Bienne Lake.]

[Footnote 49: Borrowed from the "Imperial Mine-product-sale-Commission," in Vienna. In their very names these Vienna people show taste.]

[Footnote 50: As, by the evidence at present before us, we can found on no other presumption, than that he must die in his thirty-second year; it would follow, that, in case he died two-and-thirty years after the death of the testatrix, no farthing could be claimed by him; since, according to our fiction, at the making of the testament he was not even one year old.]

[Footnote 51: In St. Paul's Church at London, where the slightest whisper sounds over, across a space of 143 feet.]

[Footnote 52: So much, according to Political Economists, a man yearly requires in Germany.]

[Footnote 53: This singular tone of my address to a Prince can only be excused by the equally singular relation wherein the Biographer stands to the Flachsenfingen Sovereign, and which I would willingly unfold here were it not that, in my Book, which, under the title of _Dog-post-days_, I mean to give to the world at Easter-fair, 1795, I hoped to expound the matter to universal satisfaction.]

[Footnote 54: His _Clerical Law_, p. 551.]

[Footnote 55: Eichhorn's _Einleitung ins A. T_. (Introduction to the Old Testament), Vol. II.]

[Footnote 56: Both have the same sound. _Fuechslein_ means Foxling, Fox-whelp.--Ed.]

[Footnote 57: Campe, a German philologist, who, along with several others of that class, has really proposed, as represented in the text, to substitute for all Greek or Latin derivatives corresponding German terms of the like import. _Geography_, which may be _Erdbeschreibung_ (Earth-description), was thenceforth to be nothing else; a _Geometer_ became an _Earth-measurer_, &c., &c. _School-undergovernor_, instead of _Subrector_, is by no means the happiest example of the system, and seems due rather to the Schadeck Lawyer than to Campe, whom our Author has elsewhere more than once eulogized for his project in similar style.--Ed.]

[Footnote 58: _New Universal German Library_, a reviewing periodical, in those days conducted by Nicolai, a sworn enemy to what has since been called the New School.--Ed.]

[Footnote 59: Superstition declares, that on the spot where the rainbow rises a golden key is left.]

[Footnote 60: To the Spring, namely, which begins with snow-drops, and ends with roses and pinks.]

[Footnote 61: This Christian superstition is not only a Rabbinical, but also a Roman one. _Cicero de Senectute_.]

[Footnote 62: For, according to the Jurists, fifteen persons make a people.]

[Footnote 63: A long philosophical elucidation is indispensably requisite; which will be found in this Book, under the title, _Natural Magic of the Imagination_. [A part of the _Jus de Tablette_ appended to this Biography, unconnected with it, and not given here.--Ed.]]

[Footnote 64: This pygmy piece of ordnance, with its cunningly devised burning-glass, is still to be seen on the south side of the Paris Vanity-Fair; and in fine weather, to be heard, on all sides thereof, proclaiming the conversion (so it seems to Richter) of the Day from Forenoon to Afternoon.--Ed.]

[Footnote 65: The Wild Hunter, _Wilde Jaeger_, is a popular spectre of Germany.--Ed.]

[Footnote 66: Indicating to the congregation what Psalm is to be sung.--Ed.]

[Footnote 67: Salerno was once famous for its medical science; but here, as in many other cases, we could desire the aid of Herr Reinhold with his _Lexicon-Commentary_.--Ed.]

[Footnote 68: This hospitable Potentate is as unknown to me as to any of my readers.--Ed.]

[Footnote 69: A little work printed in manuscript types; and seldom given by him to any but Princes. This piece of print-writing he intentionally passes off to the great as a piece of hand-writing; these persons being both more habituated and inclined to the reading of manuscript than of print.]

[Footnote 70: Thus defined by Adelung in his Lexicon: "_Kraeutermuetze_, in Medicine, a cap with various dried herbs sewed into it, and which is worn for all manner of troubles in the head."--Ed.]

[Footnote 71: Linne formed in Upsal a flower-clock, the flowers of which, by their different times of falling asleep, indicated the hours of the day.]

[Footnote 72: The good Professor of Catechetics is out here. _Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Schmelzle_.--Ed.]

[Footnote 73: Passenger so placed in the huge German Postwagen, that he cannot look out.--Ed.]

[Footnote 74: _Titan_ is also the title of this Legations-Rath Jean Pierre or Jean Paul (Friedrich Richter)'s chief novel.--Ed.]

[Footnote 75: Bruehl, I suppose; but the historical edition of the matter is, that Bruehl's treasonable secrets were come at by the more ordinary means of wax impressions of his keys.--Ed.]

[Footnote 76: Cities of Richter's romance kingdom. Flachsenfingen he sometimes calls _Klein-Wien_, Little Vienna.--Ed.]

[Footnote 77: The campaign of 1813-14 was the holy war of Germany, or Freiheitskampf, to which Jean Paul here alludes.--Translator.]

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