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The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal

Footnotes

Thomas M'Crie translation

Transcriber’s Notes

Some inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation, and punctuation have been retained.

Itemized changes from the original text:

p. ix: changed “Protestanism” to “Protestantism” (Protestantism, like the primitive Church,)

p. xxxiii: changed “Sarbonne” to “Sorbonne” (Expelled from the Sorbonne,) changed “be” to “he” (for the eucharist, he insinuated) changed “Sarbonne” to “Sorbonne” (expulsion from the Sorbonne,)

p. xxxv: changed “Sarbonne” to “Sorbonne” (before the Sorbonne was in dependence,)

p. 94: changed “perfeet” to “perfect” (the most perfect harmony)

p. 103: added missing quote mark based on context and 1875 Chatto & Windus edition (written in letters of gold.”)

p. 104: changed “terrribly” to “terribly” (I am terribly afraid)

p. 110: changed “nnmber” to “number” (the number of our offences)

p. 143: changed “Filiutus” to “Filiutius” (as Filiutius says.)

p. 146: added missing quote mark based on context and 1875 Chatto & Windus edition (gone into desuetude’)

p. 168: changed “sylllogism” to “syllogism” (a syllogism in due form,)

p. 204: added missing quote mark based on context and 1875 Chatto & Windus edition (than to live well.’)

p. 209: inserted missing opening quote mark (‘if the confessor imposes) based on context as well as 1847 John Johnstone edition, 1875 & 1898 Chatto & Windus editions

p. 211: changed “was” to “has” (who has probed this question)

p. 218: added missing quote mark based on context (sufficient with the sacrament.’)

p. 286: changed “surmont” to “surmount” (to surmount external obstacles)

p. 322: removed extraneous closing quote mark based on context and 1875 Chatto & Windus edition (adored in the sanctuary)

p. 340: removed extraneous closing quote mark based on context and 1875 Chatto & Windus edition (you may profit by my example.)

p. 345: removed extraneous closing quote mark based on context and 1875 Chatto & Windus edition (any more than his book?)

p. 347: changed “M. de l aLane” to “M. de la Lane” based on 1890 Houghton, Osgood And Company edition.

p. 349: added missing closing quote based on context and 1875 Chatto & Windus edition (purgare, sed facere”.)

In the end-of-book publisher’s catalog, some repeated words were indicated by quote marks (”). These were replaced with the repeated word, for formatting reasons.

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