That praises are without reason lavished on the dead , and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those, who, being able to add nothing to truth , hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox, or those, who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy, will be at least bestowed by time.
【語句】 heresy 異教徒、 flatter oneself that節 ..だとうぬぼれる、..であると、いい気になる
【コメント】昭和９年・東京帝国大学法学部の出題。文章の対象性に目を付けて下さい。
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