T136. The nominal opening, two better-than comparisons, question and negative answer remain. Life is not silently narrowed to youth or the rest of life; the source’s compressed comparison remains visible. Certainly not renders Non sans doute without weakening it to a merely possible denial. The source’s unusual vieïllesse and meïlleure upper marks are retained with their contour qualification, distinct from later ordinary spellings.
T504. The complete date 4 is retained. The first vieïllesse and meïlleure each show two upper i components in original-size color; the vieïllesse pair fuses into a single broad block in the native rendering, so its contour remains explicitly qualified. The later vieillesse/meilleure spellings remain ordinary dotted i . The first peut elle has no hyphen, distinct from later est-elle . Mme is baseline and unexpanded before de Vintimille. The quotation literally has voyez qu’il vaut , without ce ; no missing word or source gap is invented in its complete line. Scavoir , the initial Et /comma, period inside the closing guillemet, both flanking dashes, comparative questions and short negative reply remain. All text is roman.
T137. The attribution, initial And in the quotation, repeated worth, both dashes and final question remain. The ordinary English what in see what he is worth renders the source’s visibly compressed voyez qu’il vaut ; it does not restore ce in French. No identity, external quotation or general verdict on aging is supplied. The French qu’il wording remains intact and unemended; this is a disclosed translation-grammar choice, not a source-loss bracket.
T138. Both nominal/infinitival openings, repeated freedom and full parenthetic three-part inquiry remain. Linking, unfettered air and nailed down retain the tension between connection and mobility. Skillful turns avoids the English good-turns idiom of helpful favors. The complete 1798 Académie Tour entry supports dexterous procedure and rhetorical expression or arrangement, without fixing only one shade here. The final phrase has a source italic counterpart; the colon and following exhortation remain distinct. French first phrases and later phrazes are retained. Only Rien de cloué has italic styling; its English counterpart is Nothing nailed down, with the colon roman.
T505. The complete date 6 is retained. The first phrases uses s , while the later phrazes uses z . The en-/chaînement and habi-/tude wraps are complete; original-size color retains all right-edge letters without a certified reproduction loss. The circumflex in enchaînement is a qualified upper contour. Both full parentheses, initial nominal/infinitive formulations, repeated liberty, paired adjectives and two superlatives remain. Rien de cloué alone is italic; the following colon and imperative are roman. No finite interrogative verb or concluding question mark is supplied.
T139. The bodily swelling/flatulence image remains deliberately coarse. Perhaps keeps the botanical example tentative, and the final do-not/cannot distinction remains in its nominal formulation. Sciences retains the historical breadth of organized branches of knowledge rather than limiting the claim to modern research disciplines.
T506. The complete date 7 and singular Celle after initial plural sciences remain. Flatuosités is literal. The feuil-/les and n’en-/flent wraps are complete at the qualified right edge. Peut-être and both separate negative clauses remain, with the source dash between the comparisons. All text is roman.
T140. The nominal statement and distinction between sens and esprit remain. Repeated upright carries droit in both phrases instead of collapsing the contrast into one ordinary good sense. The meaning is evaluative, not a claim of literal bodily orientation.
T507. The two short nominal formulations and sens/esprit distinction remain. The paragraph is undated and roman; no verb or explanatory qualifier is supplied.
T141. The nominal definition and colon remain. Surges renders élans as movements of the soul without inventing an external object or purpose; detached is not expanded into a title for the notebooks.
T508. The complete date 8 precedes two separate paragraphs. Repeated De celles , pronominal versus passive predicates, paired vapor/press comparison and tourment/torture remain. Torcular. alone is italic, including its period; the preceding and following French and punctuation are roman. Original-size color and native 356 show no terminal period after the final plus . The final plural negative predicate and comma between esprit and parfum remain without inserted punctuation. This describes the reproduced absence, not a claim about authorial intention.
T142. The two kinds of thought remain contrasting fragments. Expressed preserves ordinary verbal expression and physical pressing-out in the ensuing press image. Press freshly renders italic Latin Torcular , also supported by adjacent French pressoir and exprimées . The complete Torculum entry by Yates in Smith’s 1875 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities identifies torcular as a wine or oil press; this is a later reference work, not a period dictionary or a directly checked ancient text. No liquid or machine is selected in English. Only the English Press. corresponding to Latin Torcular. is italic, including its period. Spirit and perfume retain the volatile-image relation. The final source plus has no visible terminal period in the color/native comparison, and English likewise ends without a period; this does not assert authorial intent.
T143. The bounded quotation, unnamed they, comparative better and repeated fire remain. The second fire’s divine qualification is not turned into a physical explanation or an attributed doctrinal claim.
T509. In the French source, the opening quotation closes before its comma, with present reporting clause, comparative meilleur and repeated feu retained. All text is roman; no external source identity is supplied.
T144. The first fragment, positive discernment and never-trust reversal remain. Discernment renders tact as intuitive discrimination in this context, rather than assuming polite social conduct. No named person or hidden intention is supplied.
T510. The nominal opening, plural merveilles and negative jamais remain. Honnête retains its qualified circumflex. The sloping marginal mark beside homme is not part of a word or a printed apparatus call. All text is roman.
T145. The opening exhortation, disk/orbit parenthesis, following elliptical thought formulation and all four geometric qualities remain. The plural them is not silently reduced to a single named object. The chopped/cut distinction remains deliberately difficult: the context opposes fragmentary pieces to bounded wholes, without certifying a particular cutting technique. The final negative keeps pieces distinct from wholes.
T511. Phraze has z . Absoluë visibly retains two separated upper e components in the original-size color crop, with soft contour qualification. The plé-/nitude wrap is complete. The initial que /subjunctive, whole parenthesis with its internal period, nominal list, plural les/telles and final three negative contrasts remain. Touts has its printed final s . All text is roman.
T146. The opening relative fragment and parenthetic exclusion remain. Perhaps governs the subsequent suggestion; the four sound/light/odor/body relations remain separate. No-longer, once, the alternative strengthen/subtler and repeated polish retain their force. The enduring sensory effects are Joubert’s speculation, not an added physiological finding.
T512. The full sans parenthesis, peut-être , complete comparative sequence, ne...plus cependant , une fois and alternative ou remain. L’ouïe has two distinct upper i components, while following où has its qualified grave contour. Perçans is printed without t . The odo-/rat wrap is complete. All text is roman.
T147. Verse renders plural vers collectively. Parenthetic turning preserves the circular image of du tour while leaving rhetorical shaping or turn of expression open. The complete 1798 Académie Tour entry includes both circular motion and rhetorical arrangement, with verse and thought examples; it does not limit this phrase to literal rotation. Absolute roundness, intrinsic stability, the alternative parenthesis, finally and both linked/isolated conditions remain. One is ordinary English grammar referring to stability, not a restored French noun. Subsists preserves the formal vocabulary without assigning a philosophical system.
T513. The complete date 10 is retained. Absoluë has two distinct upper e components in the original-size crop, consistent with the earlier occurrence. Enchaînée retains a qualified circumflex contour. Both full parentheses, repeated feminine pronouns, toutes les fois , enfin/également and paired et/lorsque forms remain. All text is roman; no metrical theory is substituted for the parenthetic du tour . The bounded independent comparison agrees with the qualified new 824 upper marks, printed omission after voyez , terminal punctuation absence, complete right-edge wraps and two italic extents. Only the inventoried original-size color and two native 356 rectangles support this closure; all contour qualifications remain.