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CHAPTER V. A PROFESSION.
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Here, then, is a young soul, brought to the years of legal majority, furnished from his training-schools with such and such shining capabilities1, and ushered2 on the scene of things to inquire practically, What he will do there? Piety3 is in the man, noble human valor4, bright intelligence, ardent5 proud veracity6; light and fire, in none of their many senses, wanting for him, but abundantly bestowed7: a kingly kind of man;—whose "kingdom," however, in this bewildered place and epoch8 of the world will probably be difficult to find and conquer!
For, alas9, the world, as we said, already stands convicted to this young soul of being an untrue, unblessed world; its high dignitaries many of them phantasms and players'-masks; its worthships and worships unworshipful: from Dan to Beersheba, a mad world, my masters. And surely we may say, and none will now gainsay10, this his idea of the world at that epoch was nearer to the fact than at most other epochs it has been. Truly, in all times and places, the young ardent soul that enters on this world with heroic purpose, with veracious11 insight, and the yet unclouded "inspiration of the Almighty12" which has given us our intelligence, will find this world a very mad one: why else is he, with his little
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piety
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赠给,授予( bestow的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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almighty
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diligently
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sane
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sterling
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(房屋等的)固定装置( fixture的名词复数 ); 如(浴盆、抽水马桶); 固定在某位置的人或物; (定期定点举行的)体育活动 | |
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toils
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contiguity
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averse
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wasteful
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bridle
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cramp
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obsolete
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squander
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arena
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eloquence
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utterance
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coruscating
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inmate
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accurately
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下狱,监禁( imprison的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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