Talk:CP 03862/en

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"When have I since had so many useful things to write to you" -> "When for so long I have had some very helpful things to write to you"?

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"brochure" -> "booklet" - see note 3, not a brochure but a booklet of Proust's article.

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"I am not resigned to" -> "and still not resigned to"?

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"vanity still larger" -> "is an even greater vanity"?

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"The certain excuse of this" -> "The positive excuse for this"?

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"I do not doubt that it is not absurd" -> "I've no doubt that it is absurd"?

  • We believed that "I do not doubt" reflected the style of the original (Nstrole)

"there is also only absurdities to be noted in the manifesto within Le Figaro" -> "how many other absurdities I could point out in the Figaro manifesto"?

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"No fair mind will contest that one loses their universal value in denationalising it, and that even at the height of singularity, generality blossoms." -> "No fair minded person would deny that by denationalising a work one makes it lose its value, and that it is at the very height of the particular that the general blossoms.?

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"to a body of work whilst seeking" -> "from a body of work by seeking"?

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"presiding" -> "presiding over"?

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"this unique concept which is a law" -> "this unique correspondence which is what a law is"?

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"it is the guardianship of the progress of the human spirit" -> "it has been the guardianship of the progress of the human spirit"

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"the French Justice" -> "French Justice"

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"soldats de l'Esprit" -> "Defenders of the Faith"?

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"wanting to be an all French force" -> "wanting to be French at all costs"?

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"you took a German tone" -> "you have adopted a Germanic tone"?

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(Yorktaylors)