Harmonies make us love the dissonances he banished from the world and which we find there at every step. Nature certainly has its music, but fortunately it is rare. If reality offered the melodies these gentlemen find everywhere, we would live in an ecstatic languor; we would die of drowsiness.
December 23.
December 25.
December 26.
December 27.
T107. The first two fragments, woman’s quoted manure, bread hunger, color/monochrome comparison and prism remain. Grisaille preserves the painterly term rather than merely naming a color. The comparative countryside/writing relation, banished/found opposition, qualification of nature’s music and full counterfactual consequences remain. Harmonies stays a title without assigning an edition or completing it. English semicolon separates the final two conditional consequences. The period after manure follows American placement inside the quotation; the French places it after the guillemet. Harmonies alone is italic in both languages.
T224. The entire passage is one physical paragraph. The initial Celle qui fragment and the following Et ce dégoût nominal/relative fragment retain their missing main predicates; neither is completed. In the French source, the quotation closes after fumier before a separate period. The changing perfume/food/color/prism/music images, modal peut , less-color comparison, source ne in the comparative clause, habitual bannissoit , bien and heureusement remain. The final Si clause retains both conditional consequences vivroit/mourroit ; no conclusion is suppressed or merged. Bernardin de Saint Pierre remains without inserted name hyphens. Harmonies alone is italic as printed; Ses and the following exposition are roman. The gri-/saille and cam-/pagne wraps and the other left-margin starts are qualified identifiable in color; no artificial source losses are added.
T108. The three textile terms, only/even contrast, complete parenthesis and single-sentence inference remain. Whole piece contextually renders en pièce in the fabric analogy; no excerpt is made a complete work. Sentence renders phraze as the unit sampled. The qualified complete 23 December comes from the visible source digits. French Echantillon and phraze are retained without modernization.
T225. The date 23 is retained as a qualified complete reading: the first 2’s curve, diagonal and lower foot are identifiable in color/native comparison despite upper abrasion. Echantillon has a plain initial E and phraze retains z . Both singular relative predicates n’est/est , the restrictive ne...que , the entire parenthesis, même , fragmens and une seule remain with their distinct scope. The fabric/sample image and the final tout are preserved. The n’en/même/juger margin forms retain recognizable complete structures; no number agreement is normalized.
T109. Both picturing formulations and the duration limit remain. The three alternative consequences retain their separate scopes; no unnamed group is identified or personal incapacity diagnosed. The qualified complete 25 December is read from the source, not supplied from surrounding dates. French scavent remains literal.
T226. The date 25 is retained as a qualified complete reading; the 2 has an identifiable curve/diagonal/base beside the clear 5, without a chronology-based restoration. Scavent remains literal. The two figurer formulations, longtemps , both negatives and the three alternative failures remain. The initial pourquoi and l’espérer retain qualified identifiable first letters in color/native comparison; no referent is supplied for Ils .
T110. The universal requirement, binding/obligatory alternatives, restrictive only and decree/ordinance distinction remain. The conditional truly law and explanatory derived-from relation keep their scope. The single paragraph crosses 807–808 without a new date or paragraph; this is Joubert’s account, not guidance on current law. The qualified complete 26 December belongs to this crossing paragraph; no additional date is supplied on 808.
T227. The date 26 is retained as a qualified complete reading, with recognizable first 2 beside the clear 6. This single paragraph continues through 808’s first two lines before the star; no new date or paragraph is added at the page turn. The obligation/connection alternative, par soi , negative and restrictive clauses, decree/ordinance pairing, internal dash, donc and si/bien qualification remain. The final printed c’est à dire stays spaced, and the derivation/first-source explanation is not amplified into a further doctrinal claim. The 807 obligatoire/décret starts and 808 continuation are readable at a qualified level in the color originals. No lexical loss is created by the page boundary. Independent bounded color/native comparison agrees with the three qualified dates, plain-i /circumflex/acute distinctions and single title emphasis; the stated contour limitations remain.
T111. The initial infinitive and five elliptical continuations retain all positive/negative pairs. The parenthesis specifies men without inventing a particular history. Makes one supplies an ordinary indefinite English object to rendre , not a newly identified person; the final better/worse contrast remains.
T228. The complete date 27 décembre precedes two separately indented paragraphs. The first keeps all six domains, the parenthetic des hommes , each positive/negative contrast and the final better/worse distinction. The opening infinitive is not converted into a finite source statement. The bracketed ellipsis after En littérature, de in paragraph 2 is literally printed in the book, including its following comma. It is not a newly identified reproduction loss and no word is supplied. The repeated de clauses, soul/body pair, three optical nouns and final en soi remain. Literal embélir has a single l and an acute e ; connoître keeps its qualified circumflex. All text is roman. Complete color 808 and original-size right-edge/native comparison make the page-edge letters identifiable at the qualified level. No additional lexical gap is introduced at the ordinary pour-/voir or per-/fectionner wraps.
T112. Assess takes apprécier as judgment of worth, not compulsory praise. The repeated In constructions, all their needs and both all things formulations, soul/body and final within oneself remain. The visibly printed source-editor gap after de stays […] without an invented infinitive. Lights and colors preserve the optical language of speech; no new date or paragraph is inferred from each field. The book itself prints the bracketed ellipsis and its following comma; this is not a new reproduction-loss marker. French embélir retains its single l and accent.
T113. The opening nominal phrases, supposed, at least, especially and final condition remain. The bracketed ellipsis after discours is literally printed in the book and leaves the construction incomplete; it is not a new reproduction loss. English does not supply a missing conjunction or silently complete an exception. The parenthesis is moved after discourse for readability. Sense retains sens in its relation to harmony, and ocular harpsichord preserves the visual-musical image. Only a harpsichord is quoted within the sentence; all text remains roman.
T229. The three initial optical nouns and the following fragment Ses sons ou son harmonie prétendus remain literally coordinated, including plural prétendus . The parenthetic language qualification and both restrictive constructions remain without syntactic repair. The bracketed ellipsis after discours is literally printed; it does not certify a new reproduction loss or a missing conjunction. In the French source, the quoted un clavecin and the final oculaire analogy remain, with the comma outside the closing quotation and no added explanatory words. All text is roman.
T114. The three titles remain a nominal fragment, with no named possessor or supplied finite assertion. Pontiff retains pontife without assigning a church office.
T230. Two separately indented paragraphs remain. The first is a nominal fragment with three roles and no supplied owner. The second preserves the revision from quoted docteur to Oracle, reporting imperfect disois , plain spaced Ce mot là and the three negated qualities. The referent of des deux autres is not expanded in the French. All text is roman.
T115. The separate Oracle, first-person imperfect, quotation and self-correction remain. Doctor keeps the learned-title sense available, without narrowing it to a physician. The depreciated-word image, all three denied qualities and other two retain the comparison with the preceding titles. The period after doctor is placed inside the English quotation under American style; the French places it outside. The source’s spaced Ce mot là is unchanged.
T116. May versus must not, the office/nature of light and reasoning as a stick retain their different force. Groping preserves tâtonnement in the tactile analogy; palpable remains material as well as intellectually graspable. The final very and something are not weakened.
T231. The possibility/negative-obligation distinction, repeated se trouver and contrast between ideas/light and reasoning/stick remain. The final necessity and degree très are retained. The pré-/sente wrap is readable without a source gap; the circumflex and grave contours remain qualified where compressed in the reproduction.