The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal

by Blaise Pascal

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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.