James the Fatalist and His Master, Volume 1
Translated by Anonymous
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The opening
H OW did they meet?. By chance like other people. What were their names? What signifies it to you. Frem what part of the world did 4 they come? From the place they 11 left last. Whither were they going? 4; Must people then always know whe 3 they go? For what sayings were they remarkable? The Mazter said nothing particular, and James used to say that his captain was wont to repeat, that all the good and the evil which befalls us here below was decreed on high. TP
MAS T E R. It is a grand apothegm this.
JAMES. My captain would add that every ball that was fired from a musquet had its billet.
And he was rig. x
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About this edition
- The words
- Anonymous's English translation, copied word for word.
- Copied from
The Internet Archive, item bim_eighteenth-century_james-the-fatalist-and-h_diderot-denis_1797_1
- Left out
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 7 places
- A label on the scanned copy with the work's title and volume ("THE FATALIST AND HIS MASTER. VOL, I,") (5 blocks)
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
- Scan specks on a blank page
- Specks or stray marks the OCR read on a speaker's name line, beside the name (85 blocks)
- Pictures and their captions
- Closing line "END OF vol. I."
- Other material that isn't the author's