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Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else
A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.
A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.
We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I
would fain see Posterity do something for us.
We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I
would fain see Posterity do something for us.
Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach
posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.
Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach
posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.
Herself the solitary scion left
Of a time-honour'd race.
Herself the solitary scion left
Of a time-honour'd race.
The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public
business: "we do much for posterity; read more
The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public
business: "we do much for posterity; I would fain see them do
something for us."
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
Strangers are contemporary posterity.
[Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]
Strangers are contemporary posterity.
[Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]
He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.