November 12.
Mr. de Bonnald, — a man who writes with his eyes closed.
Fénelon. “The dragging thoughts.” Yes, but they also flow. (Journal Quotidien , Art. by the marquis de Louville.)
Fénelon and Bossuet. One has the voice of wisdom, but the other has its authority. This one inhabits its valleys and the midslope, that one its heights and utmost summits. Finally, Fénelon inspires a taste for it, but Bossuet alone makes it loved with ardor and with strength, and imposes its necessity.
November 14.
Of apings (in literature). There are apings of eloquence, apings of good nature, apings of vehemence, apings of gaiety, of lightness, of simplicity and even of naïveté.
November 16.
In literature and in morals, those who do well, very well, perfectly well, without knowing what they are doing, are the best.
November 18.
Mr. de Langeac. Impartiality is a virtue in others, and partiality in him. In what sense partiality is a virtue in him.
Luminous words, like those drops of light we see in our fireworks.
The world has entered the schools and the schools the world. How. Disadvantage.
November 25.
“Something extraordinary is needed, either in austerity of life or in other sufferings, to stir the minds of peoples and make piety celebrated” (as the cold and wise Nicole very well says). “In religion (as he says afterward), those who “avoid suffering are good at most for themselves.”
Of the power to suffer, the mark of virtue.
November 26.
The expression of a brain drained dry.
That composed elegance...
November 28.
Injustices: the greatest of all scourges.
T220. The nominal fragment and source spelling Bonnald remain. No cause for the closed eyes is invented. Conventional English Mr. represents printed Mʳ with its raised r ; the comma and following dash are retained.
T429. The complete 12, raised r and double-n Bonnald are retained. The comma followed by a long dash and the nominal description remain; the title is not expanded in French.
T221. The quotation, concession, also and contrasting movement remain. The source’s abbreviated periodical/article locator is retained without a verified issue. English moves the first period inside the closing quotation. The comma after Journal Quotidien , abbreviation Art. and period before the closing parenthesis follow the source. All remain roman; the small circumflex in traînantes is qualified to the reproduction.
T222. Voice/authority, the four terrain expressions, alone and both with phrases remain. This one/that one preserves the source’s demonstratives without silently reversing or assigning their potentially awkward reference. Its/it refers to wisdom; the final two proper names are explicit in the source. French retains authorité , hyphenated Celui-ci but unhyphenated celui là , and the qualified circumflexes in mi-côte and goût . These spellings do not settle the demonstrative antecedents.
T223. Apings keeps the animal image and all five occurrences of singeries , rather than reducing them to neutral imitations. The complete list and even remain. French retains bonhommie , gaîté and naïveté , with the small upper marks in the latter two qualified to the reproduction.
T224. Both fields, the three increasing well phrases, negative knowing and superlative remain. The French spelling scavoir remains literal.
T225. The opposed terms, others/him and repeated partiality remain. The final topic sentence ends with a period, without a supplied answer or an added question mark. Conventional English Mr. represents the raised-r Mʳ . The repeated copula after and remains unexpressed as in French.
T434. The complete 18, raised-r title, Langeac, partiality/impartiality contrast and final nominal question-like topic with a period remain. The second predicate leaves its repeated copula implicit.
T226. The nominal comparison, luminous/light relation, drops and our remain.
T435. The nominal opening, luminous/light repetition, relative and nos remain; the abraded f in the next-line feux remains identifiable in color.
T227. The reciprocal structure and two one-word fragments remain in one paragraph. Schools renders collèges without implying modern American higher education.
T436. The reciprocal second clause leaves its repeated verb implicit. Comment. Inconvénient. remain within this same paragraph, both with periods; no explanatory completion is added.
T228. The either/or, both purposes, cold and wise and at-most restriction remain. The source’s two openings but single closing in the second quoted sequence are retained, with its attribution still parenthetic; no unseen Nicole passage is substituted. This paragraph continues onto page 886. English minds gives a distributive plural for the singular French esprit with plural peuples . The comma after the second parenthetic attribution is supplied English punctuation. French eux mêmes remains unhyphenated. Both paragraphs share the complete November 25 date; the second paragraph begins on page 886. The bottom II.27 is a gathering signature, not text or an annotation.
T437. The complete 25 governs two paragraphs; the first continues over the page boundary after En without added punctuation, and De la puissance is separately indented on 886. In the French source, the first quotation closes before the parenthetic attribution; the later sequence has openings before En and évitent but only one closing guillemet after mêmes . The period precedes that closing guillemet. Eux mêmes remains unhyphenated. The singular esprit with plural peuples , paired ou phrases, both infinitives, parenthetic reporting clause and tout au plus remain. The bottom II.27 is a gathering signature, not a source annotation or body text. The source specialist’s facsimile collation records the 885 partial and complete dates, three damaged initials, qualified readable margin starts, raised titles, literal spellings, upper marks and quotation/reference punctuation, plus the incoming 886 continuation and paragraph break, with all stated individual reading qualifications retained.
T229. The separate nominal paragraph and power remain. Mark renders caractère as a distinguishing trait, without weakening it to a mere possible example.
T230. The nominal fragment and physical drying image remain; no thinker or writing is identified.
T438. The complete 26 and nominal fragment remain; the perfect relative does not identify a thinker or work.
T231. The demonstrative and unfinished ellipsis remain. Composed retains the possibility of something deliberately arranged, without resolving the fragment into a judgment of falsity.
T439. The demonstrative nominal fragment ends in three printed points; they are not a reproduction gap.
T232. Plural injustices and the singular superlative predicate remain as a nominal statement.
T440. The complete 28, plural injustices and singular superlative predicate remain as a nominal statement.