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The dim reflection of a remembered splendour, a colourless and manifold diluted repetition of what they had beheld in proud old London—we will not say at a royal coronation, but at a Lord Mayor's show—might be traced in the customs which our forefathers instituted, with reference to the annual installation of magistrates. 去书内
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  • 孙毓晗 孙毓晗

    It means that the customs our ancestors created for the annual installation of magistrates were a faded and simplified version of the magnificent scenes they had seen in London, like the Lord Mayor's show.

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