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Sentences starting with posterity

Posterity will take care of itself, will read what it wants to read, will forget what it chooses to forget, and will pay no attention whatsoever to our critical mumblings and jumblings. [5]

Sentences ending with posterity

It was a treatise on hieroglyphic writing, and was to interpret the various signs so far as was still possible, and make them intelligible to posterity. [10]
The fashion of the day is rarely the judgment of posterity. [4]
And the exile, separated from the beloved France so dear to his heart, died a lingering death on that rock and bequeathed his great deeds to posterity. [2]
For Writers of Playes, and such as have been players themselves, William Shakespeare and Benjamin Johnson have especially left their Names recommended to posterity. [4]
But Cyrus the Persian (Jehovah bless his posterity! [10]
Mrs. Praed says of the poisoner, "That squatter deserves to have his name handed down to the contempt of posterity. [5]
I am clear knocked out by this new detail-- this unforeseen necessity of working a subject down gradually from his condition of ancestor to his ultimate result as posterity. [5]
It is, perhaps, his defective style more than anything else which will prevent his becoming a classic, for style above all other qualities seems to embalm for posterity. [6]
We shall have good company whose names are left unspoken by posterity. [6]
There have been few great men in any history whose names have become less familiar to the world, and lived less in the mouths of posterity. [6]

More example sentences with the word posterity in them

It will carry your name down to posterity like the ring of Thothmes, like the coin of Alexander. [6]
Even though posterity twines no wreaths for actors, it is done in the grateful memory of survivors. [10]
Our posterity appeared to think the world of us. [5]
If to be the pioneer in the introduction of Old World titles into republican America can confer a claim to be remembered by posterity, Lord Timothy Dexter has a right to historic immortality. [6]
The house is still standing, but the statues, the minarets, the arches, and the memory of the great Lord Timothy Dexter live chiefly in tradition, and in the work which he bequeathed to posterity, and of which I shall say a few words. [6]
This is the private history (which must never be told) of the document which on January first became, as far as fame and posterity is concerned, the Honourable Asa P. Gray's--forever and forever. [9]
Let our remotest posterity recall your achievements this day with pride. [2]
The works of other men live, but their personality dies out of their labors; the poet, who reproduces himself in his creation, as no other artist does or can, goes down to posterity with all his personality blended with whatever is imperishable in his song. [6]
Fifty years from now, your posterity will not count them by the hundred, but by the thousand. [5]
On second thoughts not so clear about it, remembering how some of them look that we have got stuck up in public; think I had rather go down to posterity in an Ethiopian Minstrel portrait, like our friend's the other day. [6]
When they heard Napoleon's proclamation offering them, as compensation for mutilation and death, the words of posterity about their having been in the battle before Moscow, they cried "Vive l'Empereur! [2]
The gods themselves must be my enemies, or why do they rob me of everything I love, deny me posterity and even that military glory which is my just due? [10]
He cursed the man and all his ancestry and all his posterity, sleeping and waking, until the day when he, Mahommed, would pinch his flesh with red hot irons. [11]
His name is lost, and it is a pity; for it deserves to be handed down to posterity with homage and reverence. [5]
How do you know that posterity may not resuscitate these seemingly dead poems, and give their author the immortality for which he longed and labored? [6]
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity, and none will do it enthusiastically. [7]
Thirteen hundred years hence--so says the unwritten law--the 'combine' will be the other way, and then how these fine people's posterity will fume and fret and grit their teeth over the insolent tyranny of trade unions! [5]
It saves them from the vagrant destitution which must largely attend immediate emancipation in localities where their numbers are very great, and it gives the inspiring assurance that their posterity shall be free forever. [7]
Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well-wisher to his posterity swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country, and never to tolerate their violation by others. [7]
Besides, he had done enough for his posterity, more than enough. [10]
The pettinesses which disfigured the man Hadrian will be forgotten by posterity, for the ruler Hadrian was one of those men whom Fate sets in the places they belong to, and who, true to their duty, struggle indefatigably to the end. [10]
It is my desire to leave these Amended Obituaries neatly bound behind me as a perennial consolation and entertainment to my family, and as an heirloom which shall have a mournful but definite commercial value for my remote posterity. [5]
I think posterity could have spared one more martyr for the sake of a great historical picture of Titian's time and painted by his brush--such as Columbus returning in chains from the discovery of a world, for instance. [5]
Not only is contemporary judgment often at fault, but posterity is perpetually revising its opinion. [4]
We need to consider posterity rather than our own generation. [5]
The Middle Ages come in between antiquity and posterity. [5]
I tell you, Captain, whoever has eyes in his head, can learn in a dove-cote how things come to pass among Adam and Eve's posterity on earth. [10]
I trust we authors will leave to posterity, if we have nothing else to leave, a friendship between England and America that will count for much. [5]
Inconspicuous in stature and unattractive in features" --You misbegotten son of an ourang and grandson of an ascidian (ghosts keep up with science, you observe), what business have you to be holding up my person to the contempt of my posterity? [6]
In spite of all his misdeeds he is a noble fellow [pace Madame de Remusat], and I am confident will eclipse, in the eyes of posterity, all the crowned wiseacres that have crushed him by their overwhelming confederacy. [4]
Sometimes it was a young man and a maiden, handed down to posterity in dresses that would have caused their arrest in the street, sentimentally reclining on a canvas rock. [4]
It is like a whole ancestry, with only one posterity. [5]
It will be a sign unto your posterity that much good fortune awaits them. [10]
We have reached a little altitude where we may look down upon the Indian Thugs with a complacent shudder; and we may even hope for a day, many centuries hence, when our posterity will look down upon us in the same way. [5]

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