Posterity

Herself the solitary scion leftOf a time-honour'd race.

— Posterity

As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me?

— Posterity

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."

— Posterity

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

— Posterity

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

— Posterity

Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.

— Posterity

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity; for what has posterity done for us?

— Posterity

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

— Posterity

We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.

— Posterity

What has poster'ty done for us,Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

— Posterity

A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.

— Posterity