They will go down to posterity as the proper consequences of great principles.Sir, though I have a noble pride in my principles, and the inspiration of a just cause, still I have also the consciousness of my personal insignificance....
It will live, no doubt, like the dialect in which it is written; but is this, the Gascon patois, likely to live?Will it be spoken by our posterity as long as it has been spoken by our ancestors?I hope not; at least I wish it may be less spoken....
We De la Bornes have contributed poets and soldiers and sailors and statesmen to the history of our country, for many generations.I don't want to go down to posterity as altogether a drone.Of course, I'm too late for anything really worth doing....
They reflect an original and bold artistic approach to works of value.They are worthy of being preserved for posterity as they serve as reference points in a modern global context....
He adopted it, then, as I said before, and went on towards posterity as Peter Walker.
We are writing these "Recollections" for posterity as well as for the present generation.It is only the verdict of posterity that will justly estimate the men and the influences that went to make up the final result of the early Kansas struggle....
It will not do then to infer, from the existing state of things, what was originally the respective condition of the slaveholding and the free States, or what was in fact the import of that agreement, called the Constitution, which brought about the Federal Union.The framers of the Constitution did not reason so much as to what they should do for posterity as for the generation then living.As fallible men, much as they would wish to legislate wisely for the future, yet their very imperfection of knowledge precluded them from knowing fully what fifty or a hundred years hence would be the development of slavery or freedom....
And I shall be here waiting for you; I shall watch and wait till you come.It is written in the book of fate that your name is to go down to posterity as the hero of Quebec.I am sure of it -- oh, I am sure!...
Shall it be told in the streets of this proud city that Darius the Mede has so quickly changed his mind and is sorry for what he hath done, because one of his favorites has violated the law?Thou saidst yesterday that thy name would go down to posterity as the name of a fool....
It is a charming reflection for controversial writers, that their works will be put together on the same shelves, often between the same covers; and that, in the minds of educated men, the name of one writer will be sure to recall the name of the other.So they go down to posterity as a brotherhood....
Certain it is, Billings made mess enough of his own expedition to go down to posterity as a failure.Some of the officers ran to get Ledyard a present of clothes and money....
In the local short story she deserves the honors due to one of the pioneers, and her keen affectionate observation, her humor, and her humanity, would have given her a literary reputation quite independent of her masterpiece.But she is likely to pay the penalty of that astounding success, and to go down to posterity as the author of a single book....
Moreover of those who are born into and fill great places in this invisible world not one is immortal.We should look on the body as the manifesto of the mind and on posterity as the manifesto of the dead that live after life.Each is the mechanism whereby the other exists....
She urges the impiety of his act -- a mortal has no right to take that which belongs to the fairies.He declares that he will hand down the feather suit to posterity as one of the treasures of the country.The fairy bewails her lot; without her wings how can she return to heaven?...
