英語翻譯
In reading the newspapers here,I have reckoned up not less than twenty-five great men,seventeen very great men,and nine very extraordinary men in less than the compass of half a year.These,say the gazettes,are the men that posterity are to gaze at with admiration; these the names that fame will be employed in holding up for the astonishment of succeeding ages.Let me see － forty-six great men in half a year,amounts to just ninety-two in a year.－ I wonder how posterity will be able to remember them all,or whether the people,in future times,will have any other business to mind,but that of getting the catalogue by heart.
Does the mayor of a corporation make a speech?He is instantly set down for a great man.Does a pedant digest his common place book into a folio?He quickly becomes great.Does a poet string up trite sentiments in rhyme?He also becomes the great man of the hour.How diminutive soever the object of admiration,each is followed by a crowd of still more diminutive admirers.The shout begins in his train,onward he marches towards immortality,looks back at the pursuing crowd with self-satisfaction; catching all the oddities,the whimsies,the absurdities,and the littlenesses of conscious greatness,by the way.
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