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== ジョゼフ・アディソン ==
イングランドの文筆家。
*陽気な気質は無邪気さと結びつくときには魅力的な美人を、知識と結びつくときには喜ばしい美人を、そしてウィットと結びつくときには良い性質の美人を作り出す。
*: A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured.
*::''The Tatler" no. 192
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* '''A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.'''
** ''Sir Roger on the Bench''
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*人が最初に顧慮すべきは、自責の念を避けないようにすること、次に考慮すべきは世間の非難を受けないようにすることである。
*: A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.
*:: Sir Roger on the Bench
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* Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.
** ''The Tatler" no. 224
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*優しいさまざまなもののなかにいて、私は我を忘れた。
*: Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.
*:: Letter from Italy (l. 100)
*対処薬 (antidote) とはぼけを防ぐ(prevent dotes)ために取るもののことだ。
*: Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
*::The Drummer (Act IV, sc. 6)
:antidote(文字通りには dote に対する）にかけた地口。
*書物とは、偉大な天才が人類に残す遺産である。書物は世代から世代へと受け継がれ、現在からまだ生まれぬ未来のものたちへと伝わる。
*: Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
*:: ''The Spectator'' issue no.166
*慈悲とは心がもつ美徳である。手の美徳ではない。
*: Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
*:: "The Guardian", no. 166
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* Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
** ''The Spectator'' (July 12, 1711)
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*贈り物と施しは慈悲の表現である、慈悲の核心ではない。
*: Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.
*:: 'The Guardian" no.166
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* Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
** ''The Campaign'' (l. 102)
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*健康と陽気さは互いを生む。
*: Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
*:: ''The Spectator'' issue no. 387
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* I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
** 'The Spectator'
* I would . . . earnestly advise them for their good to order this paper to be punctually served up, and to be looked upon as a part of the tea equipage.
** ''The Spectator'' issue no.10
* It is indeed very possible, that the Persons we laugh at may in the main of their Characters be much wiser Men than our selves; but if they would have us laugh at them, they must fall short of us in those Respects which stir up this Passion.
** ''The Spectator'' issue no. 47 (1711).
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*正義はともがら、友人、親族をかえりみない、従ってつねに盲目のものとして表される。
*: Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.
*:: 'The Guardian" no. 99
* 知識は、まことに、美徳の次に来る。まったくもって人は別の人間の上にのぼっていくものだ。
*: Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
*:: 'The Guardian" no. 111, Letter of Alexander to Aristotle
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* Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again.
**''Ode for St. Cecelia's Day ''
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* 人は笑うことが出来ることで、他のすべての被造物と区別される。
*: Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
*:: ''The Spectator'' (September 26, 1712)
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* Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.
** ''The Spectator'' issue no. 476
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* 謙虚さは美徳の飾りであるだけない。それは美徳の守りでもある。
*: Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
* 双方について、たくさんのことがいわれただろう。
*: Much might be said on both sides.
*:: ''The Spectator'' issue no.122
* 宗教音楽への熱狂は人を啓発する。魂を目覚めさせ、高くもちあげる。そして崇高な望みとともに魂を羽ばたかせ、神性へと語りかける際に魂によりそう。
:* Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
*::'' A Song for St. Cecilia's Day (st. 4)
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* On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, And from your judgment must expect my fate.
**A Poem to His Majesty (l. 21)
* Rais'd of themselves, their genuine charms they boast, And those who paint them truest praise them most.
** ''The Campaign'' (last lines)
* Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
** ''The Tatler" no. 147
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*このキリスト教徒がどのような安らぎのうちに死んでいくことができるかを見てください。
(: See in what peace a Christian can die. (Last words)
**:臨終の言葉。
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* Silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.
** ''The Tatler" no. 133
* So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And, pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
** The Campaign. Line 291. A similar use of words occurs in [[Alexander Pope]]'s “Dunciad,”Book iii. line 264
* Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
** "Ode" ''The Spectator'' issue no. 465
* The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.
** ''The Spectator'' issue no.166
* The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which a good thing may pass over unobserved, or be lost among commissions of bankrupt.
** ''The Tatler" no. 224
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* ユーモアのセンスというのは洗練された繊細な性質のものである。それゆえユーモアのセンスは本性から高貴な心性のうちにか、あるいはよい範例か優れた教育によって陶冶されてきた心性のうちにのみ見いだされる。
*: The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.
*:: 'The Guardian" no.161
*正義より偉大で神々しい美徳はない。
*: There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
*:: 'The Guardian" no. 99
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* There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
** Freeholder (no. 5)
* There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
**The Drummer (Act V, sc. 1)
* True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
** ''The Spectator'' (March 17, 1711)
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* 我々はどんどんまじめになってきている、それで、言ってほしいのだが、これは馬鹿になる一歩手前というものじゃないだろうか。
*: We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.
*;; The Drummer (Act IV, sc. 6)
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* Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.
** ''The Spectator'' issue no. 255
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* 彫刻と大理石の塊の間の関係と同じものが、教育と魂の間にはある。
*: What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
*:: ''The Spectator'' issue no. 215
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* When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? my Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions; or rather (to speak my Thoughts freely) I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.
** ''The Spectator'' issue no. 117 (1711)
* When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition.
** 'The Guardian" no. 115
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*[[ローマ]]にいるときには、ローマ人のように生活しなさい。
*: When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.
*:: ''Sir Roger on the Bench''
*偉人の墓を見る時, あらゆる嫉妬の感情は私の中で消える。美しい碑文を読む時, あらゆる不相応な欲望はなくなる。墓石の上の両親の悲しみに会う時, 私の心は同情と共に開かれる。その両親自身の墓を見る時, 私達がすぐに後を追わなければならない人々を悲しむ虚しさを思う。彼らを引き下ろした人によって横たわる王に会う時,並んで葬られた宿敵同士の才人達や, 論争論議と共に世界を二分した聖人達を思う時,人類の些細な争い, 党争, 討議のことを後悔と驚きとともに思案する。昨日死んだ人, 600年前の人, 墓のいくつかの日付を読む時,我々の全員が同時代であり、出現を共にした偉大な日を思う。
::When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great Day when we shall all of us be Contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
::: ''Thoughts in Westminster Abbey''
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