quincalla

EN While it would be whimsical to perceive how some great men in parish affairs would strut under the consciousness that their hands had once held a sceptre, an honest artizan or pilfering domestic would find that he would find that he was little altered by being transformed into an idle noble or director of a joint stock company; in every way we may suppose that the humble would be exalted, and the noble and the proud would feel their stars and honours dwindle into baubles and child's play when they called to mind the lowly stations they had once occupied.
GL Se ben sería curioso ver como fachendeaban algúns grandes clérigos ao decatárense de que noutro tempo as súas mans sostiñan un cetro, un honrado artesán ou un criado ladroeiro considerarían que pouco cambiou a súa condición ao verse transformados nun nobre lacazán ou no director dunha empresa. Debemos supoñer que, de calquera maneira, os humildes sentiríanse eloxiados e os nobres e orgullosos verían o seu honor e o seu prestixio reducidos a quincalla ao recordar a humilde posición que ocuparon noutros tempos.
Fonte: DOD (99)

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