December […]8.
(Return to Paris.) To invent is to find, if one invents well. To create, […]ans its strict meaning, cannot be said of humankind in […]n good sense: we create only chimeras.
December 29.
The middle, or moderation, in the cultivation of letters, of arms, […]es arts, in commerce, agriculture, population, finance, […]t the revenues of the treasury, etc.
The holy spirit and the muses, speaking to memory.
December 30.
There are crimes that fortune never pardons. Such are etc.
When they are not in their attic, in their keep, in their storeroom,—the geologist is in their cellar, in their cavern, in their den.
Ἐπίσκοποι . — Yes; but in those distant times, they were chosen by Christians filled with piety, whereas today they would be chosen by men full of passions, by de Sélv... ( sic ).
T192. Return to Paris remains the source’s body circumstance, not an inferred journey date. To invent and to find preserve Joubert’s distinction from creating chimeras. The residues […]ans and […]n remain French, probably dans , in, and un , a; neither is silently recovered. Humankind renders the collective l’homme . The partially lost day remains […]8 December, without a supplied leading digit.
T193. Moderation renders médiocrité in the sense of a middle or moderate condition, without assuming the modern pejorative sense of deficient quality. The list remains nominal. Letters and arms retain their broad cultural and military senses. The residues […]es and […]t remain French; des or les , of the or the, and et , and, are possible completions. The leading digit of the printed day 29 remains qualified in the source record.
T337. The leading 2 of 29 is retained as a qualified reading from its surviving upper curve, diagonal and lower stroke. The left edge certifies only […]es arts , without securely distinguishing des from les , and […]t before les revenus. The nominal list remains without a supplied predicate.
T194. The lowercase holy spirit and muses follow the source, and the participial formulation remains a fragment. Memory is the addressee; no particular doctrine of inspiration is supplied.
T338. Esprit saint and muses retain their lowercase letters. The nominal participial formulation is not completed.
T195. Fortune retains the source’s lowercase. The promised examples after Such are are not supplied. The leading digit of the printed day 30 remains qualified in the source record.
T196. Singular they retains the generic person without identifying a geologist. Attic, keep, and storeroom distinguish the first three locations from cellar, cavern, and den. The delayed naming of the geologist and repeated possessives remain; no particular building or allegory is identified.
T197. The Greek Ἐπίσκοποι remains in the body; broadly overseers or bishops. The compressed initial breathing remains qualified. The past were chosen contrasts with the conditional would be chosen today. Piety and passions, and Christians and men, remain distinct. The opaque de Sélv... remains unexpanded, its raised mark remains qualified, and the italic sic is the source’s intervention. The function of de is unresolved: neither a name particle nor a pluralizing or generalizing construction is asserted. No person is identified.
T341. The Greek base letters and the raised accent over iota support Ἐπίσκοποι ; the initial breathing mark is compressed and its exact direction is not independently certifiable. No Greek word or personal abbreviation is expanded. Sélv... retains the provisional raised-mark reading over e ; the small horizontal/peaked trace is degraded and does not certify a precise accent direction. The printed sic is italic, with the period after the closing parenthesis. This is the final 1809 block before the year-heading rule.