If it depended only on me has softness. If I were its master has none. (Softness or indistinctness.)
December 17.
T77. The whole comparison, repeated not even, in-this-respect restriction and superlative remain. The source name Lafontaine is retained as one word; no broader ranking is claimed outside Joubert’s judgment. [Found] renders damaged trouv[…] within the passive English recast; the negation is intact. The suspected gap after the complete name Boileau remains unfilled: it may concern punctuation, but its presence and extent are uncertain, so no comma is asserted there.
T204. Four separately indented paragraphs remain under one separator-bounded unit. Lafontaine and Fontanes remain literal names; the two poësie forms and poëte have readable upper e -components consistent with diaereses. Scais is not modernized. Paragraph 1 preserves the negative nulle part and both pas même comparisons. The endings after trouv and Boileau are not certified; the second gap may include only punctuation and its presence/extent at the folded edge remains uncertain. The ordinary res-/semble wrap retains a qualified identifiable s and does not itself imply a missing letter. Paragraph 2 preserves the direct question, unknown-knowledge statement and the four faculty/material pairings. At the right edge only momen , l and un are complete at the marked losses; any following terminal punctuation after momen is also not certified. The ordinary cer-/tain wrap is readable at a qualified level, without an extra gap. Paragraph 3 retains both nominal fragments and the positive/negative contrast between the two formulations. S’il ne tenoit qu’à moi and Si j’en étois le maître are italic; a , the lost ending after d , the later n’en a pas and the parenthesis remain roman. Only the complete d is retained before the damaged component; no e is restored. The comparative force is not made a new ordinary conditional consequence. Paragraph 4 preserves both Que clauses, both negatives, the trop degree and the exact colon after juste . Only u and le are complete at the right-edge losses. The final parenthesis remains the literal Corps de baleine image without an explanatory replacement. The bounded independent comparison now agrees with the right-edge gaps, qualified wrap distinctions and four italic boundaries on 804, without certifying missing letters or the presence/extent of the Boileau slot.
T78. The question and present admission of ignorance remain beside the ensuing assertion. All four sensory relations, both certain qualifications and even touch remain. Phosphor preserves phosphore as a luminous substance rather than turning the passage into a scientific explanation; attention is not changed into another bodily sense. English semicolons clarify the four coordinated relations without claiming French punctuation. [Moment], [the] and [a] render momen[…] , l[…] and un[…] . The period after moment is an English sentence division, not a recovered mark at the damaged source ending.
T79. The four short formulations and final alternative parenthesis remain. The two compared expressions alone receive corresponding italics; no quotation marks are added. Its preserves en without naming its referent. In has softness, has renders intact a and softness intact mollesse ; the damaged d[…] has no separately rendered English partitive counterpart. Indistinctness renders the artistic flou as an alternative to mollesse without collapsing the two words.
T80. Both exhortations, both bodily verbs and the practical comparison remain. Tight contextually interprets juste through the body and whalebone-stays image; the French’s possible association with exactness is not erased. The parenthesis is clothing, not a whale’s anatomical body. The complete official electronic Académie Baleine entry of 1798 describes the flexible material and gives bodice and busk examples, supporting the clothing sense. It does not give this exact compound. The Corps article was not accessible, and no original dictionary page was inspected. [A] before body renders u[…] . The damaged plural article le[…] has no separate English counterpart in generic in works. The colon after too tight is intact, while the ordinary English article in a great rule is not a loss restoration.
T81. The opening dash, backward reference, thus and complete parenthesis remain. All three everything formulations and both kinds of wishing retain their relations; could preserves pouvoit . The single paragraph crosses 804–805 before the next separator. No exact target for See above is inferred from proximity. Every renders the universal force of intact tout . The lost French agreement ending in tout[…] has no separate English counterpart and is not restored in French; leaving every unbracketed does not certify that ending.
T205. The opening dash and roman backward reference stay within the paragraph; its exact destination is not assigned from proximity. The second parenthesis continues across the page boundary and closes after philosophique on 805. The repeated tout , self-explanation and present peut /past pouvoit distinction remain. Only tout is complete at 804’s final right edge; the following detached strokes do not certify an e . At 805’s opening, opération and désirer retain qualified identifiable initial o/d contours in color/native comparison; no additional loss is inserted from neighboring show-through. This unit ends after 805’s first two lines, before the star.
T82. Rule retains the practical and normative analogy; the cord is not replaced with a rigid ruler. Even when, and and the intact negative remain. The final masculine le points back to cordeau ; English retains it without repeating the noun.
T206. Three separately indented paragraphs remain in one undated unit. The thread/iron-bar and wooden/iron-rule distinctions, flexible/straight pair, repeated de fer and all negative/restrictive constructions remain; no image is regularized into a single object. The third paragraph keeps its two dashes, quoted words beginning Mon joug léger ... and ending after cœur. , direct question and Pharisiens/pharisiens capitalization shift. The first printed ellipsis is not a current reproduction gap, and the scriptural words are not replaced from an external text. Color/native margin comparison retains qualified identifiable starts in de , flexion , souple , che , Apprenez , fier and lourds . The in-/flexion and tou-/che wraps retain their actual letters without added losses; outer-margin artifacts do not warrant extra words.
T83. The universal, paired supple/straight qualities and hard/iron transformation remain. The repeated rule is not replaced by a named law or religious authority.
T84. The two obligation relations, mind/hands contrast, wood/iron opposition and marble exception remain. The bounded yoke quotation is freshly translated from the French, retaining its nominal opening and ellipsis without importing a standard English Bible. The question, restrictive only and unfinished Pharisees formulation remain. No claim of an exact biblical quotation has yet been made.
T85. The two groups and two distinct ways of failing to know remain. The equitable-scales image retains the mitigating à notre décharge relation. Sick time, wounded intelligence, conditional forgiveness and complete giving of what may remain sound are not made an unconditional guarantee or a current theological claim. English semicolon after time separates the two finite clauses. The source’s complete 17 December is retained as a qualified reading of its visible digits, not inferred from the sequence.
T207. The day 17 is retained as a qualified complete reading: the 1 has an identifiable sloping stem and top/base remnants beside the clear 7; it is not inferred from the neighboring dates. The two kinds of belief/error, mal connu/méconnu , historical ceux là beside hyphenated ceux-ci , accounting image and illness image remain. The future pardonnera and conditional si , the singular tout entier ce and the final two named objects retain their source relations. The folded starts aux , ceux-ci , superstitions , vivons , sée and nous remain qualified identifiable in the color original; the bles-/sée wrap does not supply an extra letter. The accent contours remain compressed; the completed bounded independent comparison agrees with the displayed reading limits without resolving their reproduction uncertainty.
T86. The bounded quotation, repeated motto, comparative escalation and post-revolution setting remain. The nominal second formulation is not completed by an invented main verb. The period is placed inside the closing English quotation under American style; the French puts it after the closing guillemet.
T208. In the French source, the exact quotation closes before the separate period. The following nominal formulation retains both belle and the superlative, the two commas and the temporal phrase. The folded p of pour is degraded but identifiable in color; no extra phrase or agent is inferred.