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CHAPTER VIII. LITERARY FAME.
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Time has a Doomsday-Book, upon whose pages he is continually recording1 illustrious names. But, as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated2 characters, never to be effaced3. These are the high nobility of Nature,--Lords of the Public Domain4 of Thought. Posterity5 shall never question their titles. But those, whose fame lives only in the indiscreet opinion of unwise men, must soon be as well forgotten, as if they had never been. To this great oblivion must most men come. It is better, therefore, that they should soon make up their minds to this; well knowing, that, as their bodies must ere long be resolved into dust again, and their graves tell no tales of them; so musttheir names likewise be utterly7 forgotten, and their most cherished thoughts, purposes, and opinions have no longer an individual being among men; but be resolved and incorporated into the universe of thought. If, then, the imagination can trace the noble dust of heroes, till we find it stopping a beer-barrel, and know that
"Imperial Cæsar, dead and turned to clay,
May stop a hole to keep the wind away;"
not less can it trace the noble thoughts of great men, till it finds them mouldered8 into the common dust of conversation, and used to stop men's mouths, and patch up theories, to keep out the flaws of opinion. Such, for example, are all popular adages9 and wise proverbs, which are now resolved into the common mass of thought; their authors forgotten, and having no more an individual being among men.
It is better, therefore, that men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher
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recording
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posterity
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n.后裔,子孙,后代 | |
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motive
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approbation
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resolute
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inevitable
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majestically
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雄伟地; 庄重地; 威严地; 崇高地 | |
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onward
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sublime
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dungeons
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discomfort
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n.不舒服,不安,难过,困难,不方便 | |
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accomplishment
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toiling
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v.看,注视,看到 | |
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n.男爵;(商业界等)巨头,大王 | |
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n.高脚酒杯 | |
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benign
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goblets
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monarch
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wretch
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n.可怜的人,不幸的人;卑鄙的人 | |
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v.严惩(某人)(尤指责打)( chastise的过去式 ) | |
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vocation
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dedicated
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seclusions
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pious
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(缓慢而有规律的)钟声( toll的名词复数 ); 通行费; 损耗; (战争、灾难等造成的)毁坏 | |
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