How To Use Posterity In A Sentence

Cornelia the mother of the Gracchi, contributed much to the eloquence of her sons; and her learned stile is handed down to posterity in her letters. Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination
Albertus Magnus [Alberto Magno] "To Albertus Magnus, because he investigated the natural phenomena in emulation of Aristotle, in immense volumes, as a most holy concern for posterity Federico set this up for one who deserved it well. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
He keeps this up for little more than a minute but it's more than enough time for the paparazzi flashbulbs to capture this unexpected turn of events for posterity.
You had far better all die -- _die immediately_, than live slaves, and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity. Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life And Also Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America
This time I have captured the gargantuan Turkish meat butty for posterity, here and in the photo's section forever more.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. Joseph Addison
And the news business, which once took pride in what it put down for posterity, is all atwitter with tweets and insta-posts by self-appointed experts on a bazillion blogs. Cash for clunker columns
This literature would provide society with an image of itself which it could show to the outside world, to contemporaries and to posterity. Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century
This is Elvis Presley, wiggling his fanny for posterity.
I shall count my country _lost_, in the loss of the primitive _principles_, and the primitive _practices_, upon which it was at first established: but certainly one good way to save that _loss_, would be to do something, that the memory of _the great things done for us by our God_, may not be _lost_, and that the story of the circumstances attending the _foundation_ and _formation_ of this country, and of its _preservation_ hitherto, may be impartially handed unto posterity. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
I see people in libraries and archives and Family History Centres, obsessed with finding traces of family in microform, in scraps of paper, officially, and sometimes arbitrarily, preserved for posterity.
His influence as a composer was much greater than posterity has generally recognized.
Boswell's Life retains its extraordinary immediacy; it has recorded his soundbites for posterity and shaped history's opinion of the learned, apophthegmatic Doctor.
Joseph Haydn, sometime mentor and later friend and admirer, wrote, "Posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years".
It was a hilarious moment, and had to be preserved for posterity. Times, Sunday Times
A photographer recorded the scene on video for posterity.
Bad enough I should have to think about it without suffering the indignity of attempting to record it for posterity.
Then entered the guilt of Adam's sin imputed to posterity, and a general corruption and depravedness of nature. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
She stood filming the whole spectacle with her video camera - as if there weren't enough cameras around to record the event for posterity.
Finally, plainly aware that the dam might well keep his name alive for posterity long after all other memories of his ill-starred presidency had faded, he closed with what was certainly a heartfelt request: “I hope to be present at its final completion as a bystander.” Colossus
In fact, if posterity decides to remember any of these extravaganzas, it will probably be due more to clever packaging and mixing of media than to any innate musical quality.
A gene has only one criterion by which posterity judges it: whether it becomes an ancestor of other genes.
French photographer, Marie Accomiato, has preserved for posterity her experiences during her sojourns in the land of Gandhiji and Rabindranth Tagore.
Join "saith ... concerning the house of Jacob." redeemed -- out of Ur, a land of idolaters (Jos 24: 3). not now -- After the moral revolution described (Isa 29: 17), the children of Jacob shall no longer give cause to their forefathers to blush for them. wax pale -- with shame and disappointment at the wicked degeneracy of his posterity, and fear as to their punishment. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Country, preferred from Earl to Duke of _New-Castle_; was a Person equally addicted both to Arms and Arts, which will eternize his Name to all Posterity, so long as Learning, Loyalty, and Valour shall be in The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)
Any writer writing for posterity is kidding him or herself. More Aesthetics
Every time you went through a door into a classroom or a door in the corridor you had to swipe your card through an electronic card reader, and this was logged into an anonymous grey hard drive in the cellar and stored for posterity.
What Walpole calls the absurdest passages are precisely those which possess most interest for posterity; namely, the minute personal details, which bring Johnson home to the mind's eye. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings
Agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, again flourished under the protection of the laws; and the curioe, or civil corporations, were again filled with useful and respectable members: the youth were no longer apprehensive of marriage; and married persons were no longer apprehensive of posterity: the public and private festivals were celebrated with customary pomp; and the frequent and secure intercourse of the provinces displayed the image of national prosperity. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The doting gran watched from the side as Jackie and Robyn splashed about in the waves then took out her camera to record the moment for posterity.
But to the last he showed his magnanimity by honoring Cosmo Versál, and upon the latter's death he caused to be carved, high on the brow of the great mountain on which his voyage ended, in gigantic letters, cut deep in the living rock, and covered with shining, incorrodible levium, an inscription that will transmit his fame to the remotest posterity: The Second Deluge
Instead, he said, we "consider the acquiring of property to soften the asperities of sickness, of age, and for the benefit of our posterity, as one of the greatest incentives to industry. Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
regulus" has not been discovered, so that his infamy is transmitted anonymously to posterity. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800
Many crew photographs of the nineteenth century show crews in poses reminiscent of school photographs with the entire crew assembled for posterity.
They have to support the honour of an ancient family, and to hand down the name untarnished to their posterity. Diary in America, Series Two
Prefaces; and it is well to remember the witticism of Voltaire, who, on hearing an ambitious poeticule read his Ode to Posterity, doubted whether it would reach its address. Prisoner for Blasphemy
They divided the house twenty-three times, and it sat till 5 A.M. "Posterity," said Burke, "will bless the pertinaciousness of that day. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration
This meant that all those early arrivals died out, or at least did not leave any mitochondrial chromosomes to posterity. The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
As far as posterity is concerned, they have sunk without trace. Times, Sunday Times
Commentaries, annotations, and interpretations are all posterity's views from different quarters and corners.
For posterity I'd clasped the necklace Lily had given me around my neck.
They also ensured their place in posterity, by placing statues of themselves within the temple precincts, as doyens of religion.
I'd tell you how, except I didn't see it because I was too busy trying to chronicle Ukraine's opener for posterity and being pestered by a fly that's buzzing around my head and won't effing eff the eff off.
After all, what we term posterity is but a drop of water in the ocean of Time. Olla Podrida
A gene has only one criterion by which posterity judges it: whether it becomes an ancestor of other genes.
Indeed, I think the duty he owes to his posterity, imperatively calls on him to break the thraldom which is keeping him and his race low and stationary in the scale of being. Jamie Parker, the Fugitive
Now it might have been supposed that a Circle — proud of his ancestry and regardful for a posterity which might possibly issue hereafter in a Flatland: a romance of many dimensions
Few of his works will go down to posterity.
Between us we had even hired a video so that we could record this minor miracle of medical history for posterity.
But how does the Cottesloe family feel about the loss of its foothold in posterity? Dorfman or Cottesloe? Does it matter what a theatre is called?
Whenever the balloon goes pop, the fruit goes smoosh, or the glass begins to shatter, the DIY sensor will pick up the noise and fire the flash — capturing your moment of high speed destruction for posterity. Set Up A High Speed Photography Studio In Your Garage | Lifehacker Australia
Then entered the guilt of Adam's sin imputed to posterity, and a general corruption and depravedness of nature. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
The discourse abounds with just observation, applicable to all ranks of men; and, if properly attended to by that infatuated emperor, might have prevented the perpetration of those acts of cruelty, which, with his other extravagancies, have rendered his name odious to posterity. De vita Caesarum
I wonder how many other academic luminaries were so recorded for posterity. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps the only _souvenir_ of refugee and "skedaddler" life abroad during the war ever published, its preservation may one day be useful in the socialistic archives of the South, to whose posterity slavery will seem almost a mythical thing. Bohemian Days Three American Tales
Union, establish justice, "-- yes, Sir, _establish justice_ --" to promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Speech of John Hossack, Convicted of a Violation of the Fugitive Slave Law Before Judge Drummond, Of The United States District Court, Chicago, Ill.
Aristotle, who will still have a hand in everything, makes a 'quaere' upon the saying of Solon, that none can be said to be happy until he is dead: "whether, then, he who has lived and died according to his heart's desire, if he have left an ill repute behind him, and that his posterity be miserable, can be said to be happy? The Essays of Montaigne — Complete
Further, to think of organizing these papers for the sake of posterity is to think of posterity, which is the same as thinking of dying, which is different from vanity but equally unpleasant. My “Papers” : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
The archdiocese has opened a string of museums, including one last week, in a bid to preserve for posterity the history and tradition of the church in India.
He is one of two videographers catching everything on camcorder for posterity.
Similarly, if you have an interesting story to tell, get started on that article now, and have it recorded for posterity.
The posterity for commemorates this fortuitous encounter to construct five Hushan in this.
I received the thanks of the society; and was solicited to reposit my theory, properly sealed and attested, among their archives, for the information of posterity. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
These all contain priceless works of art which might, at the very least be sold to provide resources for rebuilding the country even if they did not want to preserve the collections for posterity. Cheeseburger Gothic » Gentlemen’s Club.
Now, theoretically, it ought to be possible to make sort of a real chili cassoulet slow roasted and annealed in the oven until the beef chunks, red kidney beans, anchos, cumin, salt onion and garlic seem ready for the apocatastasis of posterity. To bean or not to bean | Homesick Texan
we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity
The safer the work is, the better as far as posterity is concerned. Times, Sunday Times
So this picture records for posterity a scene of village life that has been lost forever.
Not only are the recordings of an exemplary technical standard, remastering included, but from posterity's perspective, Beecham's Beethoven is still invigoratingly captivating and terrifically fresh.
Every attempt is being made to ensure that these works of art are preserved for posterity.
Special occasions are recorded for posterity by the subjects themselves.
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Ok, the good thing about ‘the internet’ is that it allows teenage stunts to be recorded for posterity.
But hasten to say that if those revelations were a mere fabrication, then let posterity judge us as a nation.
This was the era of patrician history, when scholars followed the great classical historians in holding up to posterity examples of errors, failings, and laudable deeds.
It was a hilarious moment, and had to be preserved for posterity. Times, Sunday Times
He had one daughter, and there his hopes of posterity ended; for soon afterward his wife died of a violent illness which the doctors called iliac passion. Mauprat
Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plow, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? Matthew Yglesias » What Theda Skocpol Said
LONDON—Clifford Odets 1906-63 was a Russian-Jewish American writer best known as a left-wing playwright, but most familiar to posterity for the screenplay of "Sweet Smell of Success. A Slow 'Rocket' That Struggles to Take Off
I shall continue to exert all my faculties to maintain the just powers of the Constitution and to transmit unimpaired to posterity the blessings of our Federal Union.
Certainly there is something youthful in the image posterity holds of both composers: Mozart's impishness, Schubert's ardent drama.
'of our constancy (as men may promise) till our lives end; yea, farther, we will divulgate and set abroad a charge and commandment to our posterity, that the amity and league between you and us contracted and begun in Christ Jesus may by them be kept inviolated for ever.' John Knox
Every attempt is being made to ensure that these works of art are preserved for posterity.
A photographer recorded the event for posterity and departed.
York's year of Millennium celebrations are to be captured on videotape for posterity for present and future generations.
“Thy Lord drew forth their posterity from the loins of the sons of Adam;” and the commentators say that Allah stroked The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
So this picture records for posterity a scene of village life that has been lost forever.
He addresses his works to the people of every country and every age; he calls upon posterity to be his spectators, and says with Zeuxis, _In aeternitatem pingo_. Seven Discourses on Art
Her message translated as "that you should have a delightful day with your children and dearest friends, that it should be a day worthy of remembering in posterity, full of happiness, tenderness, and special memories. A Mexican Valentine
Posterity has called her mad: a schizophrenic.
Contemporary archivists and historians may not be the best prepared to select which records should be stored for posterity.
This meant that all those early arrivals died out, or at least did not leave any mitochondrial chromosomes to posterity. The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
It also plunders natural resources, imperils posterity, and jeopardizes self determination.
Vile intrigues, unnatural crimes, and every vice that degrades our nature, have been the steps to this distinguished eminence; yet millions of men have supinely allowed the nerveless limbs of the posterity of such rapacious prowlers to rest quietly on their ensanguined thrones. 5 5 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
The dinner at the Tsarist palace they styled a dacha was an historic occasion between our two countries and deserves to be recorded for posterity. An American Life
For the sake of posterity, it's a good idea. Times, Sunday Times
In those days, I never went anywhere without my trusty camera, so I even recorded it for posterity.
A photographer recorded the scene on video for posterity.
This slowed progress and construction and probably helped save southern brownstones for posterity.
Scorebooks can reveal the statistics, and the result of matches is recorded for posterity.
Bologna in Italy, anno 1504, there was such a fearful earthquake about eleven o'clock in the night (as [2155] Beroaldus in his book de terrae motu, hath commended to posterity) that all the city trembled, the people thought the world was at an end, actum de mortalibus, such a fearful noise, it made such a detestable smell, the inhabitants were infinitely affrighted, and some ran mad. Anatomy of Melancholy
When the official departure portrait was taken, and filed for posterity, the players turned and boarded the plane. Times, Sunday Times
It was wished to retemper for him the sword of the constable Duguesclin; and it was hoped that a statue erected to his honour would at once attest to posterity his spotless glory and the gratitude of the Bourbons. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
It was a lame excuse, and I bluntly told him that he owed it to posterity to relate his story.
James and I promptly switched from citizens of Bristol to excited tourists as we disembarked from the ferry, splashed around in the city’s water features and photographed the whole thing for posterity. The Ladyboys of Bangkok « Sven’s guide to…
We have said, that the above Christian conjugial principle perishes by polygamical adultery: we thereby mean, that with the Christian polygamist it is closed and intercepted; but still it is capable of being revived in his posterity, as is the case with the likeness of a grandfather or a great-grandfather returning in a grandson or a great-grandson. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
Joseph Haydn, sometime mentor and later friend and admirer, wrote, "Posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years".
These portraits lent them a near iconic dimension, recording a pictorial hymn in their praise for posterity.
That he did not hope for this temper in his age, the humour on both sides being so turgent, and extremely contrary to it, and the controversy debated on both sides by those 'who,' saith he, '_desire to eternize, and not to compose contentions_,' and therefore makes his appeal to posterity, when this paroxysm shall be over. The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands
Charges of brutality, of savagery, have been laid at Simon's door, but perhaps this is the first time posterity has reproached him for ordinary honesty.
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.
Each of the twenty-five contributors has felt the need to testify for the sake of posterity and as a human chronicle. The Times Literary Supplement
Every attempt is being made to ensure that these works of art are preserved for posterity.
Seen from a view of posterity, her "boring" job was to provide Julia Child with the discipline, the autonomous organizational skill, the patience to devise, test and perfect the recipes in her encyclopedic chef-d'oeuvre Julia Child: The OSS Years
I was tickled by the idea of making a film for posterity.
Posterity has agreed to call Lorenzo "the Magnificent", but this is, in part, a misunderstanding of the Italian title "magnifico", which was given to all the members of his family, and, indeed, during the fifteenth century, applied to most persons of importance in Italy to whom the higher title of "Excellence" did not pertain. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
(I mean the law Epopoeian), and devolveth upon the poet as his property, who may take him and deal with him as if he had been dead as long as an old Egyptian hero; that is to say, embowel and embalm him for posterity. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2
With his horizon all his own, yet he a poor man, born to be poor, with his inherited Irish poverty or poor life, his Adam's grandmother and boggy ways, not to rise in this world, he nor his posterity, till their wading webbed bog-trotting feet get talaria to their heels. Walden~ Chapter 10 (historical)
Nay, he could go farther than that, and venture to assert openly, over his own name, and leave on record for the benefit of posterity, _the assertion_ that this new method of inquiry _does apply_, directly and primarily, to those questions in which the human race are _primarily concerned_; that it strikes at once to the heart of those questions, and was invented to that end. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
A photographer recorded the scene on video for posterity.
That these debates are televised and recorded for posterity are implicit in a democracy.
Talem pulchritudinem qualem virtus habet; no painter, no graver, no carver can express virtue's lustre, or those admirable rays that come from it, those enchanting rays that enamour posterity, those everlasting rays that continue to the world's end. Anatomy of Melancholy
After the Royal Wedding in 1981 I even preserved the commemoration milk bottle tops for posterity.
The havoc wrought by German shells in French and Belgian churches and cathedrals stands recorded in countless photographs and other illustrations, to form a permanent Indictment of Germany's methods of warfare that will make her name execrated by posterity. The Illustrated War News, Number 15, Nov. 18, 1914
By carefully orchestrating an expressive surface, he perceptively salvaged the internalized characteristics and secured them for posterity through the act of photography.
Or as if he were bound to provide charms for his posterity in his own person! Middlemarch
Interested in Greek as well as Ottoman and Persian culture, he was eager to present himself to posterity as the new Alexander the Great.
I predict a major collision between the Copyright Office and the copyright industry in the coming months - let's hope posterity wins.
For me, the big eye-opener was the section on the challenges of storing digital movies for posterity. Times, Sunday Times
This is one of the reasons I click in day after day- to have an opportunity to have my name memorialized in the back of a limited edition leather-bound volume for all posterior, er… posterity- what a guy! The Last Colony Auction Winner; Announcing “The Sagan Diary” « Whatever
History will not remember what illegitimate excuse they used, other than as a derogative footnote; but history will remember their transgression against freedom, and it is upon this that posterity shall judge them. ProWomanProLife » Note to the administration: They’re not backing down
Therefore he is called Shem, which signifies a name, because in his posterity the name of God should always remain, till he should come out of his loins whose name is above every name; so that in putting Shem first Christ was, in effect, put first, who in all things must have the pre-eminence. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
Grisi, gimp-waisted sylphid, here skips for posterity. Yet Again
The accusation of a man on hearsay is nothing: would he accuse himself on passion and ruinate his case and posterity out of malice to accuse you? State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2)
Mordechai spoke his sharp words not to her, but to posterity.
Thoughtfully done and vibrantly coloured, they bring out the value of trees and the need to treasure them for posterity.
At least certain parts of the city need to be preserved for the sake of posterity.
There's something that collectors alone appreciate, about the transitoriness of life, of the fragile miracle of ownership, and of the sense of bequeathing something to posterity.
The interests of the posterity shall rule in defining the interests of the general welfare.
Into this you can slot 35 mm slides and negatives (two at a time) to transfer to your computer for posterity, or print out for all to enjoy.
Contemporary archivists and historians may not be the best prepared to select which records should be stored for posterity.
What posterity will have to decide is whether any of it means anything -- or if its greatness might reside in its daring refusal to mean. Movies: Matthew Barney's 'Cremaster Cycle' comes to E Street Cinema
Historical monuments and buildings need special care if they're to be conserved for posterity.
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity. Benjamin Disraeli
The more I read this diary, the more I began to trust its terse, unsensational observations, the sense it imparted of an observant man writing not to impress posterity but simply to record his own memories.
Cohen recommends a methodical, three-part approach to archiving for posterity.
That "Cagliostro" is rightfully placed in the category of pseudo-alchemists is certain, but it also appears equally certain that, charlatan though he was, posterity has not always done him that justice which is due to all men, however bad they may be. Alchemy: Ancient and Modern
Constantinople: 58 but his liberality, however it might excite the applause of the people, has in curred the censure of posterity. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The practice of taking what were known as matricular contributions from the separate States to make up for deficits in the imperial budgets, and of burdening posterity by State loans, had one day to cease. William of Germany
The room had the requisite trappings of power—the fireplace, the swagged floor-to-ceiling windows—setting the scene for posterity most of the work in the building got done in a different kind of classic D.C. décor: small, verging-on-shabby rooms with furniture that was merely old, not antique. Yellow Dirt
On the wall behind him, photographs record for posterity his triumphant expression on completing the London Marathon.
Fortunately someone had the presence of mind to snap off a picture, preserving the soapy creature for posterity.
This, then, is the sign of virtu in rulers and citizens alike: each must be prepared to advance not his own interests but the general good, not his own posterity but the common fatherland.
When Abraham was promised posterity to match the stars in the heaven for multitude (again from the Bible) we take God at his word and believe that Abraham's litteral seed will excede the number of sand particles on this planet. Jerry Falwell: Romney's Mormonism "Will Not Be A Factor"
For more than a year now Mr Kohl has been locked in a battle to rescue his battered reputation for posterity.
England, at least to defend its liberties; to improve burlesque into satire; to free translation from the fetters of verbal metaphrase, and exclude it from the licence of paraphrase; to teach posterity the powerful and varied poetical harmony of which their language was capable; to give an example of the lyric ode of unapproached excellence; and to leave to English literature a name, second only to those of The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author
Yet there is not the least mention made of any such things, though questionless they were as sumptuous as possible; but whatever things were treated of and learnedly discussed by their guests were left upon record and transmitted to posterity as precedents, not only for discoursing at table, but also for remembering the things that were handled at such meetings. Symposiacs
Posterity has tended to answer that question in the negative.
The same he haith lefte to his posterity, garnished and replenished with riche furnitures; amonge the wch his Lybrarye is righte worthye of remembrance. ' English Book Collectors
It enshrines the past and captures images for posterity.
At the square end of the horse-shoe, so to speak, stretched the imposing canvas screen, painted in a most elaborate style, by the hand of some artist whose name unhappily has not been preserved for the benefit of posterity. Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge
The law must be designed to defend the people, and their posterity, the general welfare.
The comedian ate the rice and pickle as if it was a gourmet dish while lensmen recorded the event for posterity.
As he nears the end of his remarkable career, Warne is a phenomenon waiting to be cast in gold for posterity.
The Ching dynasty emperor Kangxi saw Wang's "integrationist" approach as symbolic of his own unifying reign, and no doubt as a useful instrument of self-celebration for posterity. An Encounter With the Sublime
It is certain, when God showed honor, and came down to bless Jacob's posterity, in taking them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, _they were the owners of slaves that were bought with money, and treated as property_; _which slaves_ were allowed of God to unite in celebrating the divine goodness to their _masters_, while Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
I have no resentment of animosity against the gentleman [Jefferson] and abhor the idea of blackening his character or transmitting him in odious colors to posterity. Chris Rodda: No, Mr. Beck, John Adams Did Not Think Governments Must Be Administered by the Holy Ghost
It was preserved for posterity with David's Mum smiling away - bless her heart.
Mencius, a Confucian master even said: ‘There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them.’
The goal of Enoch's prayer, and Mahalalel's command, is to preserve the posterity of the righteous.
Creating photographic records for posterity is not new for Highsmith. Carol Highsmith, on a 16-year quest to photograph America for the Library of Congress
When, 25 runs later, he castled Peter Siddle with a similar ball, to ensure that his name would be on the honours board for posterity, he knelt down on one knee in the middle of the pitch, head bowed, as if about to be knighted. Flintoff Brings Australia to Its Knees
Union, establish justice, "-- yes, Sir, _establish justice_ --" to promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Speech of John Hossack, Convicted of a Violation of the Fugitive Slave Law Before Judge Drummond, Of The United States District Court, Chicago, Ill.
Next to our beloved Washington, there is no name entwined with deeper interest in the hearts of Jerseymen, than LAFAYETTE -- None, which they will transmit to their posterity, encircled with a wreath of nobler praise, or embalmed with the incense of purer love, than that of the interesting stranger who embarked his life and fortune open the tempestuous ocean of our revolution -- and who fought at Brandywine, at Monmouth and at Memoirs of General Lafayette : with an Account of His Visit to America and His Reception By the People of the United State
Seen from a view of posterity, her "boring" job was to provide Julia Child with the discipline, the autonomous organizational skill, the patience to devise, test and perfect the recipes in her encyclopedic chef-d'oeuvre: "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" (1961, 1970), on which her immortality can be said to rest. Julia Child: The OSS Years
We still have the letter in which Burns enclosed "Scots wha 'hae," and it is curious to note his misjudgment of the verse; and side by side with that kind of misjudgment we have men picking out for singular affection and with a full expectation of glory some piece of work of theirs to which posterity will have nothing to say. On Something
Yes, the motives of fame and posterity are there, but the main thrust of their reasoning is that they want to stay alive.
'of our constancy (as men may promise) till our lives end; yea, farther, we will divulgate and set abroad a charge and commandment to our posterity, that the amity and league between you and us contracted and begun in Christ Jesus may by them be kept inviolated for ever.' John Knox
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. Joseph Addison
Literary posterity will probably regard it as an interesting but failed experiment, taking Updike away from his usual themes and mileu, although not completely: its exploration of religious belief is consistent with much of his previous fiction, and the town of New Prospect, New Jersey could easily enough be a depiction of Brewer, Pennsylvania in its own decayed postindustrial latter days. Updike, John
They are also cultural and political catalysts that protect and conserve heritage and history of the land and people for posterity.
The great VERULAM profoundly felt the retardment of his fame; for he has pathetically expressed this sentiment in his testament, where he bequeaths his name to posterity, AFTER SOME GENERATIONS SHALL BE past. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
I have seen many men strip, in gymnasium and training quarters, men of good blood and upbringing, but I have never seen one who stripped to better advantage than this young sot of two-and-twenty, this young god doomed to rack and ruin in four or five short years, and to pass hence without posterity to receive the splendid heritage it was his to bequeath. A MAN AND THE ABYSS
What would posterity think of us if we had nothing to transmit to it save a complete insectology, an immense history of microscopic animals? Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.
While the stars of former friends and associates, such as Buber and Tillich, waxed in the United States, he was largely unknown and unlistened to, except for some devoted undergraduates who taped his undergraduate lectures for posterity. Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
I have seen many men strip, in gymnasium and training quarters, men of good blood and upbringing, but I have never seen one who stripped to better advantage than this young sot of two-and-twenty, this young god doomed to rack and ruin in four or five short years, and to pass hence without posterity to receive the splendid heritage it was his to bequeath. A MAN AND THE ABYSS
Whether this is due to the lack of other cultural assets these people can leave to posterity is a moot point.
With his horizon all his own, yet he a poor man, born to be poor, with his inherited Irish poverty or poor life, his Adam’s grandmother and boggy ways, not to rise in this world, he nor his posterity, till their wading webbed bog-trotting feet get talaria to their heels. Walden
But where is the plea which we can hand down to a candid posterity in exculpation, wholly or partially, of the parricidal act which has robbed the American nation of a father, every American citizen of a friend, factious parties of their most generous judge, a relentless enemy of their best protector, and the whole world of an HONEST MAN? The Great Funeral Oration on Abraham Lincoln
Gramophone companies had made it possible to record their work for posterity.
Diaries convey the sweep of history in the detail of eye witness testimony, while photos freeze a specific moment and capture it for posterity.
Seen from a view of posterity, her "boring" job was to provide Julia Child with the discipline, the autonomous organizational skill, the patience to devise, test and perfect the recipes in her encyclopedic chef-d'oeuvre Julia Child: The OSS Years
They will exist for posterity only in waxwork figures and in a few scant pages of history. Janey Canuck in the West
Damon will leave his mark for posterity at the opening ceremony by putting his handprints in clay on a plaque which will later have pride of place within the building.
It would make for simplicity, he once remarked apropos of infant baptism, if all Adam's posterity derived souls as well as bodies from their first parent by heredity.
To justify the imprecations of vengeance upon the sinner's posterity, the sin of his ancestors is here brought into the account (v. 14, 15), the iniquity of his fathers and the sin of his mother. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Many have digital cameras and camcorders to record the special moments for posterity.
Alldas. de, a site that mirrors defaced websites for posterity, is shutting down. Boing Boing: February 10, 2002 - February 16, 2002 Archives
It can be very daunting doing vocals when you know it's going down on record for posterity!
Tarentum was a Latin Rights colony, its senior magistrates — the two men called duumviri — entitled to assume the full Roman citizenship for themselves and their posterity. The Grass Crown

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