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PASCAL'S THOUGHTS.

OF

AISE PASCAL.

RANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH.

PRECEDED BY

A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.

ANDOVER:
EN, MORRILL AND WARD WELL,

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846,

BY ALLEN, MORRILL AND WARDWELL,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

present edition of Pascal's Thoughts, the transthe Rev. Edward Craig, published in England in been carefully compared with the original, and ndments have been made, as a strict adherence se, and, as far as possible, to the expression of , seemed to require. A translation of the first pters, which are omitted by Mr. Craig, is here

also of some other passages by him excluded. on, therefore, contains the Thoughts of Pascal it is, so far as has been ascertained, the only comprises a translation of the whole of Pascal's Thoughts.

iculties attending the translation, must be suffiious to any one, who shall examine the account nner in which the Thoughts were written, as

e preface. In many instances, they are imperessed and somewhat obscure, and in such pas

e translation is not intelligible, the fault, it is ay be charged to the original. Throughout the

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