Posterity

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

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

“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!”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.”