I stood mute before this apparition of remote antiquity.

我静静地站在这个远古的幽灵面前。

Can authority be more amiable and respectable when it descends from accidents or institutions established in remote antiquity than when it springs fresh from the hearts and judgments of an honest and enlightened people?

难道它们不就是一些装饰品吗？难道因运而生或通过远古制度而继承的权力，会比诚实而卓识的人民按自己的意愿和判断而产生的权力更可亲可敬吗？

Without remounting to the remote antiquities of either the French or English monarchies, we may find, in much later times, many proofs that such effects must always flow from such causes.

无需重新审视远古的法国或英国君主制， 在很久以后， 我们可能会发现许多证据表明， 此类结果必然源于此类原因。